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Reckless Ogre

Creature — Ogre3 generic manaRed mana

A solo-attacker payoff dressed up as a beatdown body: the +3/+0 only fires when this Ogre swings unaccompanied, which is the design's whole personality. The reward looks generous (a 3/2 that hits as a 6/2) but the trigger condition pulls against the way aggressive red decks actually want to operate, since the most damaging turns are the ones where everything attacks at once. That tension is the point. The card asks for a board where it is the lone threat, the late-game topdeck after a stalled race, the closer in a deck that has run out of other creatures, the single attacker that slips through after a sweeper. It is a piece of the long line of "attacks alone" creatures that lean on a player choosing restraint over a full alpha strike, trading the swarm's reach for one body that punches harder in isolation. The toughness stays at 2 regardless, so the bonus buys a bigger clock without buying any survivability; this is a creature built to win a damage race rather than grind a stalemate. Plain and direct, it rewards the specific board state where a wide assault is no longer on the table.

Reckless Ogre (exo)
EXO · #98common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks alone, it gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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