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Looming Altisaur

Creature — Dinosaur3 generic manaWhite mana

A 1/7 is one of the oldest jokes in white common design: a wall in everything but type line, a body that exists to make attacking math miserable without ever threatening to win a game. The seven toughness is the whole point. It blocks essentially every early-game creature without dying, survives most of the cheap burn that would clear a lesser blocker, and stalls a board long enough for slower decks to find their footing. The single point of power is the tax the design pays for that durability: this thing closes a game only over a span of turns no one is patient enough to count. The interesting wrinkle is that it can actually attack, and that it carries a creature type with real tribal weight rather than a defensive keyword, which means it answers to anthem effects and tribal payoffs a true Wall would shrug off. That distinction is what justifies printing a 1/7 Dinosaur instead of a 0/7 Wall: the body is the same speed bump, but the type line lets it belong to a deck rather than just sitting in front of one. The lineage runs back to the earliest defensive commons, but where those were locked out of combat by design, this one keeps the door open, however slowly it walks through it.

Looming Altisaur (plst)
PLST · #XLN-23common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
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Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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