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Renegade Bull

Creature — Ox4 generic manaRed mana

A 0/5 with no innate offense is a strange chassis for a spellslinger finisher, and that inertness is deliberate. The two triggers pull in opposite directions and meet in the same combat step. Cast a spell and the body gains power equal to that spell's mana value, so the wall that reads zero attack becomes lethal the instant something expensive is cast; five toughness means it lives to keep swinging while the deck grinds. The attack trigger then completes the circuit: exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard, copy it, and cast the copy for free. That copy re-triggers the pump before damage, so recasting a fat sorcery mid-combat stacks its mana value onto an already-growing body.

The design lesson sits in how the halves depend on each other. Most spell-matters creatures pick a lane: a fragile enabler that dies to any nudge, or a beater indifferent to your noncreature spells. This one refuses to choose. It is a defensive shell that only converts into a threat through the spells you were already resolving, and the graveyard recursion means a copied bomb hits as hard as the original. Trample is the enforcer clause, insisting the piled-up power actually connects rather than dissolving against a lone chump blocker. Left alone, the ox is furniture; hand it something to throw and it throws the whole graveyard.

Renegade Bull (soc)
SOC · #36rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that spell's mana value. Whenever this creature attacks, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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