Magma Giant

Seven mana for a 5/5 that wipes the small stuff and chips two off everyone, yourself included: this is the Portal design philosophy in miniature, where the engine that drives high-power Magic gets re-rendered for an audience that never saw the stack. The enters-the-battlefield Pyroclasm rider is the whole point, but the symmetry tells you who it was built for. A seasoned player reads "2 damage to each creature and each player" and immediately wants to deploy it into a board where the damage is lopsided in their favor; the original Portal-product player was meant to read it as a big dumb dragon-substitute that happens to clear the table. The two damage to its controller is the kind of clean, unhidden cost that the Portal sets leaned on heavily, since there were no instants in those products to interact with the trigger and nothing subtle to hide. What survives is a creature that sits at the intersection of finisher and sweeper without committing fully to either: too expensive to be an efficient board control card, too self-damaging to be a clean closer. It is a fascinating artifact of teaching-set design, a card whose every decision points back at a player who was learning what a board wipe even was.