Marhault Elsdragon

Rampage is the design artifact here, and Marhault is one of its larger billboards. The mechanic was Legends' attempt to solve a combat-math problem the early game found genuinely vexing: how do you reward the attacker for forcing a gang-block without breaking the rule that blockers choose how to assign damage? Rampage's answer was to scale the attacker after blockers were declared, turning the second and third chump into a liability for the defender rather than a free trade. The trouble is that one block was usually enough to kill the attacker outright, so rampage paid off only against opponents who had no better option, and the keyword was retired within a few years. At a 4/6 body for six mana, Marhault is durable enough that a lone blocker often cannot finish the job, which is the narrow window where the ability earns its keep: a midrange Gruul beater whose threat of triggering rampage, more than the trigger itself, shapes how the defender commits to the block. The card has had a quiet second life as a budget Gruul commander, the kind of legend that predates the format's design priorities and gets played for the novelty of running a mechanic the game no longer prints. It is a clean specimen of Legends' willingness to staple experimental keywords onto creatures and see what the table did with them.