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Quarry Colossus

Creature — Giant5 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

The word that separates this from destruction is "library." Most white answers at this size kill or exile; this one buries a creature on the battlefield back into its owner's deck, beneath the top X cards, where X scales with how many Plains you control. A mono-white board can plant the target so deep it functions like removal for the rest of the game, while a thin manabase leaves it shuffling back near the top for a quick redraw. That depth is the whole transaction, and it is what makes the effect honest: it is a tempo play, not a clean answer. A token simply ceases to exist; a real threat gets delayed, not destroyed. What the tuck does that destruction cannot is sidestep the graveyard entirely. It exiles nothing, so it never feeds a recursion deck the fuel it wanted filled; it triggers no "when this dies" payoff; and it neutralizes a creature your opponent intended to rebuy from the yard by routing it back into the library instead. The 5/6 frame is the rest of the bargain: at seven mana you are paying for a sturdy blocker that happens to inconvenience one creature, not for a removal spell with a body bolted on. It reads sharpest against the single-threat opponent and the graveyard-reliant one, and the Plains rider quietly taxes the splash, rewarding the player who committed fully to one color over the one who hedged.

Quarry Colossus (jou)
JOU · #22uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.45
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, put target creature into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library, where X is the number of Plains you control.
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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