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Mosstodon

Creature — Plant Elephant4 generic manaGreen mana

A 5/3 for five with no evasion of its own would be a forgettable green beater, except the body and the ability point at the same threshold. This creature already clears the power-5 bar that its own activation cares about, so the trample-granting effect folds back onto itself: for one mana, it can push its damage past a chump blocker rather than have a 5-power swing soaked up by a 1/1. The activation also reaches outward to green's biggest creatures, the ones that routinely sit above five power and most want a way to make their excess damage spill over the blockers in front of them. The design is a quiet statement about green's preferred resource: rather than reward small, efficient bodies, it rewards going large, then hands those bulky things a discount way to keep their damage from being wasted in combat. The toughness of 3 is the cost that keeps the rate fair; this is a fragile thing that wants to attack, not a wall that sits back and turns its mana on. It reads as a piece of an early "matters of size" experiment, where raw power numbers became a trigger condition rather than just a combat stat, and a green creature that turns its own bulk into reach is the most natural place to test that idea.

Mosstodon (ala)
ALA · #139common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic mana: Target creature with power 5 or greater gains trample until end of turn.
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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