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Pugnacious Hammerskull

Creature — Dinosaur2 generic manaGreen mana

A 6/6 for three mana is a rate green almost never gets to print clean, so this one carries a leash: attack while you don't control another Dinosaur, and it stuns itself, sitting tapped for an extra untap step each time it attacks. The design turns the body into a tribal payoff rather than a beater. Every additional Dinosaur you deploy is a key that unlocks free, penalty-free attacks, so the card is priced as if you will build toward a board where you always control another Dinosaur. On an empty battlefield it is a liability that trades tempo for its own size; surrounded by its kind, it becomes the largest thing green can field this early. The self-inflicted stun counter is a neat inversion of the mechanic's usual role: stun normally punishes an opponent's creature, but here it is the tax the card levies on its own controller for breaking tribal discipline. That framing does the balancing work a keyword ability or an activation cost would do elsewhere, but it lives entirely inside the attack trigger, which means the drawback is conditional and self-correcting: the moment your board fills out, the downside evaporates and you are left holding a wildly overstatted three-drop.

Pugnacious Hammerskull (lci)
LCI · #328rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.82
Foil: $0.97
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks while you don't control another Dinosaur, put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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