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Outland Colossus

Creature — Giant3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Renown is usually a small reward for connecting once: a 2/2 nudges to a 3/3, a modest body picks up a counter or two and stops there. Here the keyword is set to its loudest possible value, with the threshold (renown 6) matched to a 6/6 body and a payoff that doubles it into a 12/12 the moment a hit lands. The trigger is gated behind combat damage rather than entry, which is what keeps the rate honest: the counters only arrive after the Colossus actually attacks and connects, so the defender has every turn until then to find an answer, and instant-speed removal during the combat step it swings is the intended pressure valve. The "can't be blocked by more than one creature" clause is not evasion in the trample sense; a single 1/1 still chumps it all day and denies renown by itself. What the clause actually denies the defender is the gang block: against a 6/6 with eventual 12/12 upside, the natural answer is to throw two or three bodies in front of it and trade them all to kill it, and that line is simply unavailable. The Colossus can only ever be met by one blocker at a time, so the defender either has a creature large enough to trade alone or eats the hit. The strategic axis is binary: against an undefended board it connects and becomes a near-unkillable 12/12; against a lone chump it stalls indefinitely.

Outland Colossus (pori)
PORI · #193★rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Renown 6 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put six +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes renowned.) This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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