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Palani's Hatcher

Creature — Dinosaur3 generic manaRed manaGreen mana

The engine here is a conversion machine disguised as a haste-anthem beater. Two fragile 0/1 Eggs arrive with the body, and every combat step feeds one into the grinder in exchange for a 3/3, so what looks like a five-mana 5/3 is really the front end of a token factory that keeps paying out as long as you keep supplying Eggs. The haste clause is the connective tissue: those freshly minted 3/3s do not sit idle a turn, they attack the moment they exist, which is what turns a slow value trickle into a clock. That combat-begin timing is the wrinkle worth sitting with. The Egg is spent before combat damage, so the 3/3 replaces it in time to swing, and because the trigger checks each turn you control an Egg, anything that refills the Egg supply extends the loop rather than capping it at two payouts. Green-red Dinosaurs had plenty of expensive, splashy top-end already; the design problem this answers is what the tribe does with its incidental bodies, and the answer is convert them upward and send them in immediately. It rewards a board built wide over a board built tall, and it asks you to think of small creatures as raw material rather than blockers.

Palani's Hatcher (plci)
PLCI · #237srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Other Dinosaurs you control have haste. When this creature enters, create two 0/1 green Dinosaur Egg creature tokens. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control one or more Eggs, sacrifice an Egg, then create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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