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Ornery Dilophosaur

Creature — Dinosaur3 generic manaGreen mana

Deathtouch on a 2/2 body is a common-rarity tax on combat math: your opponent trades away something they'd rather keep, or eats a chump. The attack trigger is what elevates the design past that baseline. With a four-power creature or better already on the board, this swings as a 4/4 with deathtouch, the sweet spot where deathtouch stops being purely defensive and starts winning races: a big-enough attacker to demand a real block, and a body that kills whatever answers it. The conditional does the balancing work. Absent a heavy hitter alongside, it stays a fragile 2/2, easy prey in any exchange; the pump only materializes on a board already built to feed it, which pushes the card toward decks that are ahead on the ground rather than clawing back from behind. That makes it a payoff creature dressed as a beater, the kind of common that rewards a green stompy curve rather than slotting into any deck that happens to run green. The Dinosaur type and the power-4 clause both point at the same archetype: fat creatures attacking in a group, with this one turning a good attack into a lethal one by threatening to kill any blocker outright.

Ornery Dilophosaur (m21)
M21 · #194common
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.34
Oracle Text

Rules text

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever this creature attacks, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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