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Master Symmetrist

Creature — Rhino Druid2 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Green has always paid you for a symmetrical body, and this card knows exactly which stat it cares about: power equal to toughness, the profile of a Watchwolf, a Kalonian Tusker, half of every efficient beater green has ever printed. The reward is trample, which is the one keyword those square creatures most want and least often have, since the whole point of a 4/4 for four is that it trades up in combat rather than punching through chip blockers. As an anthem-adjacent engine it rewards a deckbuilding constraint that a green aggro pile would happily accept anyway: fill your curve with even-statted creatures and the whole team starts leaking damage past small blockers on every attack. The trigger keys off attacking, so it does not help you break a defensive stalemate on the back foot, and it checks power-equals-toughness at the moment of the attack, meaning a temporary pump that skews the ratio can switch a creature off. Its own 4/4 body qualifies, so it hands itself trample the turn it swings, and reach lets it hold the ground against fliers on the turns it does not. The design is a quiet piece of tribal-adjacent lord logic, except the "tribe" is a stat line rather than a creature type: a build-around that costs you nothing if your creatures were going to be square anyway, and does nothing if they were not.

Master Symmetrist (stx)
STX · #138uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach Whenever a creature you control with power equal to its toughness attacks, it gains trample until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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