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Pyrewood Gearhulk

Artifact Creature — Construct2 generic manaRed manaRed manaGreen manaGreen mana

Craterhoof Behemoth taught a generation of green players what a single attack step can do, and the design conversation ever since has been about how to grant that kind of alpha-strike payoff without simply reprinting the same overrun. This is one answer built at the intersection of red and green: the anthem is smaller than Craterhoof's convex scaling, but it stacks vigilance and menace onto the whole team, so the swing keeps your board back on defense while forcing chump-blocks to double up. The clause that ties the package together is the last line. Preventing damage is the standard fog-shaped escape hatch against a lethal swing, and by shutting it off for the turn the card removes the one interaction that historically neutralized these enters-the-battlefield finishers. Vigilance and menace on the body itself matter for the same reason the anthem does: a 7/7 that can attack without lowering its guard is a race-ender that does not open you up in return. Every haymaker finisher fights the same problem, that the biggest turn is also the most fragile: the whole plan lives on the stack for a beat, waiting for a single answer. Turning off prevention closes one avenue of escape, but plenty of interaction still applies—removal, bounce, tapping, or exile can all blunt the swing before it lands.

Pyrewood Gearhulk (pdft)
PDFT · #216pmythic
Pricing
Normal: $1.67
Foil: $3.37
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance, menace When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and menace until end of turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
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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