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Polis Crusher

Creature — Cyclops2 generic manaRed manaGreen mana

Built for an era when enchantments were the load-bearing wall of the format, this is a creature whose entire kit is pointed at one card type. Protection from enchantments means no enchantment can block it, target it, or hold it down: pacifism effects, aura-based removal, and enchantment blockers all fall away against it. That does not make its attacks unstoppable, since ordinary creatures and non-enchantment interaction can still trade with it or turn it aside. What the protection guarantees is narrower and more precise: enchantments specifically cannot answer it, which sets up the payoff. Pay the monstrosity cost and every hit strips an enchantment off the defending player, so the body the enemy's enchantments cannot touch turns around and dismantles them one connection at a time. The structure is unusually single-minded: the protection clears the defensive layer that would normally shut a beater down, and the combat trigger converts each landed hit into a Disenchant the enchantment player is poorly positioned to prevent. Most hate bears solve their problem by standing on the board; this one solves it by connecting and taking something with it. The cost of aiming this precisely is obvious: against a deck running no enchantments, the trigger is dead text and you are left with a 4/4 trampler that grows into a 7/7 for a steep additional investment. That conditionality is the whole bargain a targeted answer-on-a-stick is meant to make: overwhelming when its axis shows up, forgettable when it does not.

Polis Crusher (ths)
THS · #198rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample, protection from enchantments 4 generic manaRed manaGreen mana: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if this creature is monstrous, destroy target enchantment that player controls.
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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