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Rumbling Ruin

Creature — Elemental5 generic manaRed mana

Counters decks usually cash out their board with trample, menace, or a mass pump: some way to convert accumulated +1/+1 counters into unblocked damage. This does the arithmetic differently. Rather than granting an evasion keyword, it reads the board's total counter count and turns that number into a blocking restriction on the opponent's smaller creatures, clearing a lane on the turn it lands. The design puts a payoff at the top of a counters curve while itself carrying no counters at all, which is the subtle wrinkle: it rewards a board you built elsewhere, then arrives as a 6/6 that most of the swarm can no longer stop. The effect is a one-shot for the turn it enters, so its ceiling scales with how wide and how loaded the rest of your creatures already are (a single fatty with a stack of counters is enough to shut down a row of chump blockers). It answers a real problem for go-wide counter strategies, where a defending army of tokens or utility creatures can absorb an alpha strike no matter how large the counter total gets. Here that same total becomes the weapon: the more you invested in growing your team, the more of the opposing wall folds. It is a top-end finisher built for a specific engine rather than a generic beater, and it only pays off when the counters were already there to count.

Rumbling Ruin (rna)
RNA · #112uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, count the number of +1/+1 counters on creatures you control. Creatures your opponents control with power less than or equal to that number can't block this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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