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Needletooth Raptor

Creature — Dinosaur3 generic manaRed mana

Enrage usually pays out small, incremental rewards: a counter here, a card drawn there, a bump in size that makes the next block awkward. This one weaponizes the keyword into a removal cannon. The trigger does not care how much damage hit the body or whether the creature survives; any nick at all answers with five damage aimed at something an opponent controls, enough to kill nearly anything a fair deck can field. That decoupling is the design wrinkle. A 2/2 that dies in combat still resolves its full five-damage payout, so chump-blocking it is a trade that leaves you down a creature anyway, and an opponent burning it down triggers the same execution against their own board. The natural play is to deal the damage yourself: any ping, any fight spell, any "deals 1 damage" effect converts into a guaranteed kill at a profit. The constraint that keeps it from spiraling is how enrage counts: the trigger fires once per damage event, not per source, so a wall of blockers hitting it simultaneously answers only one of them. The corollary is what makes it dangerous, though: a single source dealing damage in separate events, like a double strike attacker or a repeatable ping ability, triggers the Raptor once for each hit. It is enrage stretched to its violent extreme: a keyword built to reward getting hit, handed a payoff most decks would happily pay to provoke.

Needletooth Raptor (plst)
PLST · #RIX-107uncommon
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Normal: $0.20
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals 5 damage to target creature an opponent controls.
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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