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Rubblebelt Recluse

Creature — Ogre Berserker4 generic manaRed mana

Six power for five mana is a rate that has to be paid for, and the payment here is the loss of control over when this body enters combat: it swings every turn it can, whether or not you want it to. That is the classic drawback attached to oversized red beaters, a design lineage that runs back through the vanilla-with-a-catch Ogres and Trolls of red's history, where the color buys size at the price of discipline. The forced attack turns a defensive tempo swing into a liability, since an opponent can hold back a chump or a favorable block and let the 6/5 walk into it while they develop the board. The trade the card offers is stark: you get one of the largest bodies red can put down at this cost, and in exchange you surrender the option to sit back and hold the fort. It reads as a common-rarity aggressive top-end, the kind of card built to close a race rather than win a grind, and the attack-each-combat clause is the leash that keeps a 6/5 for five honest against everything red's opponents are naturally short on: cheap, clean removal.

Rubblebelt Recluse (rna)
RNA · #111common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.40
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature attacks each combat if able.
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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

1 set
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