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Rulik Mons, Warren Chief

Legendary Creature — Goblin1 generic manaRed manaGreen manaGreen mana

The attack trigger reads like a coin the card flips for you every combat, but the two outcomes are quietly the same engine viewed from opposite ends. Peek at a land and you accelerate; find anything else and you get a body. Either way the attack pays for itself, which is the design trick: the token isn't consolation for whiffing, it's the guaranteed floor that lets the card ramp aggressively without ever feeling dead. Menace on the 3/3 is the piece that keeps the whole thing turning, because the trigger only fires on attack, and the two-blocker tax makes that attack far more likely to connect turn after turn. That combination (a repeatable ramp-or-widen trigger gated behind combat) points the card at a Goblin-tribal, land-heavy midrange plan rather than a pure ramp shell: the tokens want a payoff, and the surplus lands want somewhere to go. It sits in a small lineage of red-green creatures that convert combat into advantage, but where most of those simply draw or dig, this one splits the reward between the board and the mana base and lets a single look decide which you need. The gamble is real and never repeats identically, which is most of the appeal: you commit the attack first, then find out whether the turn made you faster or wider.

Rulik Mons, Warren Chief (dmu)
DMU · #217uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever Rulik Mons attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you didn't put a card onto the battlefield this way, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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