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Rimrock Knight // Boulder Rush

Creature — Dwarf Knight // Instant — Adventure1 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Two attacking functions parked in one card, and neither wants to play defense. Boulder Rush is a shrunken Giant Growth: +2/+0 for a single red mana rather than green's +3/+3, cheap enough to steal a combat step or push through the last point of lethal. This is what the Adventure mechanic buys: casting the instant exiles the card rather than sending it to the graveyard, leaving the creature waiting to be summoned later at its full 1 generic manaRed mana. What eventually lands is a 3/1 that can't block, pure forward pressure, a body whose inability to hold ground means the deck around it must already be the one attacking. Where Adventure usually sells flexibility (a removal spell now, a blocker later; a bit of value now, a threat later), this card refuses the hedge entirely. Both modes push the same plan: the instant wins a race, the creature keeps one going, and nowhere along the way does the card offer a defensive fallback. That single-mindedness is exactly what a low-curve red deck wants from a two-mode card, which cares less about optionality than about never drawing a blank. The sequencing is the pilot's problem to solve: fire the pump early to close a game, or hold the card as a creature when the board wants a fresh threat. Every branch it offers still points the same direction.

Rimrock Knight // Boulder Rush (eld)
ELD · #294common
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't block. // Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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