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Roughshod Mentor

Creature — Giant Warrior5 generic manaGreen mana

A static team-wide trample grant is one of green's oldest answers to the chump-blocker problem, and this renders that answer as a 5/4 body for six mana. The grant matters more than the stats: in a green deck full of fat creatures, the difference between a 5/4 that gets chump blocked by a 1/1 and one that pushes four through is the whole math of an attack. Because the ability is static, it touches every green creature already on the board the moment this resolves, so a built-up board does not wait a turn to cash in: the trample applies immediately, and an attack can connect that same turn. Excess power is exactly what tramples over, so the effect compounds with creatures that are already large. The cost is the narrowness of the grant: it reaches only green creatures, ruling out colorless or off-color attackers and tying its value to a mono-green or heavily green board, precisely where stacks of trample do the most work. There is also the price of running an anthem on a creature rather than an enchantment: the body can be killed, and removing it strips the trample off the whole team at once. The trade is that the body contributes to the same plan it enables, adding five power to the swarm it pushes damage through in the ways that matter.

Roughshod Mentor (dpa)
DPA · #81uncommon
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Rules text

Green creatures you control have trample.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
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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