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Predator's Strike

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

The +3/+3 boost is the easy part to read; trample is where this earns its keep. Most green pump spells of this era stopped at the buff and left the math to chump-block away. Granting trample at instant speed turns the spell into a blowout against any defender that's smaller than the new total: the attacker survives the block and the excess crashes through to the player. That reframes the trick from a combat-survival tool into a reach tool, a way for a green creature deck that has run out of ways to close to push lethal through a clogged board. The cost structure is honest about what it's doing: two mana for a swing that big means you're spending it in combat, not holding it as insurance, and the trample clause rewards casting it on something already big enough to make the overflow matter. It's a clean piece of the green-aggression toolkit, the kind of spell that does its best work the turn you're already ahead and want to convert a stalled attack into damage on the face.

Predator's Strike (psal)
PSAL · #K52common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Legalities

Format Status

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