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Rampart Smasher

Creature — GiantRed or Green manaRed or Green manaRed or Green manaRed or Green mana

The hybrid cost is the practical hook, letting a 5/5 for four mana slot into any green-or-red curve without asking for both colors, but the evasion clause is where the design does its most interesting work. This is conditional evasion tuned to a specific board state rather than a universal one: against a wall-heavy stall or an opponent chump-blocking with Knights, the body is unblockable and closes fast; against anything else, it is a vanilla beater whose text does nothing. That narrowness is the price of the aggressive rate, and it is an honest trade. The two creature types it ignores are also the two a fairy-tale plane leans on for defense, which turns a piece of conditional rules text into world-building: a Giant that stomps past the fortifications and the knights manning them. Evasion keyed to defender-type creatures has a long lineage of designs that punish a particular archetype instead of every opponent, and this one commits hard to the two blockers most likely to gum up a red-green swing. The result is a beatdown creature whose ceiling depends entirely on what sits across the table: a clean, legible version of a lever the game has pulled many times, rewarding the aggressor for facing the exact defense they were built to trample.

Rampart Smasher (eld)
ELD · #213uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked by Knights or Walls.
Legalities

Format Status

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