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Ravenous Sailback

Creature — Dinosaur4 generic manaGreen mana

Green rarely gets to pick its poison at instant of arrival, and this creature quietly bundles two of green's most common jobs into a single enters-the-battlefield choice: it either shakes off summoning sickness to attack the turn it lands, or it clears an artifact or enchantment off the board. That split is smarter than it looks, because the two modes almost never compete for the same board state. When you are ahead and need to press, the haste mode turns a midsized body into immediate pressure; when you are staring down a problem permanent, the destruction mode makes the creature a Naturalize with legs stapled on. A modal enters trigger like this hedges against the dead-card problem that plagues narrow answers: you never have to leave it in hand hoping the right target shows up, because the fallback is simply a beater that swings now. The body itself is unremarkable and deliberately so; the design puts its weight on flexibility rather than stats, giving green midrange a card that plays as a threat in the games where it needs a threat and as removal in the games where it needs an answer, without asking the deckbuilder to choose in advance which it is.

Ravenous Sailback (mom)
MOM · #202uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, choose one — • This creature gains haste until end of turn. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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