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Lowland Oaf

Creature — Giant Warrior3 generic manaRed mana

Here is a Giant whose entire reason for existing is to dispose of Goblins. The flavor is the joke: a lumbering brute that grabs one of your little goblins, flings it over the wall for a single point of evasive damage, and then watches it fail to survive the landing. Mechanically the tap ability reads as a downside dressed as an upside. You spend the tap to hand one Goblin +1/+0 and flying for an attack, and the sacrifice clause then collects the body once the turn winds down. That trade only pays off when the Goblin was already destined to die or carries a death trigger worth cashing in, which puts the card squarely among creatures that reward an aristocrats-style sacrifice shell rather than ones you cast for the 3/3 body. As a beater it is forgettable; the activation is the whole proposition, and the whole proposition is a repeatable sacrifice outlet that throws off one damage and a flyer per turn. It belongs to the tribal cross-pollination experiments of an era when Giants and Goblins were drawn as natural antagonists, and the design leaned into that antagonism with unusual literalness: the big creature eats the small ones. Read it not as a finisher but as a slow, flavorful sacrifice engine stapled to a body, valuable precisely to the decks built around throwing their own creatures away.

Lowland Oaf (lrw)
LRW · #184common
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Target Goblin creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains flying until end of turn. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
Legalities

Format Status

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