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Scrappy Bruiser

Creature — Raccoon Warrior3 generic manaRed mana

The bounce clause is a target, not a tax, and where you aim it decides what the card is. An attack trigger that hands out +2/+0 and trample would normally just be reach for the alpha strike, aimed wherever the damage needs to land; this one drags whatever it pumps back to its owner's hand at end of combat, which reframes the buff as a controlled bounce with a combat bonus stapled on. The natural home is a board that wants creatures leaving and re-entering play: point the ability at your own cheap attackers with enters-the-battlefield effects and the end-of-combat return becomes a feature, replaying the trigger while a tapped attacker sidesteps the sorcery-speed removal that would otherwise punish it. Point it at itself and you get a 3/4 swinging as a 5/4 trampler that recycles, but replaying a four-mana body each turn is a real tempo cost, not a free reset; the return is only self-serving here if you have nothing cheaper worth bouncing. And you can always decline: the trigger targets up to one attacker, so on a wide board with no return-value payoff you can pass on the pump entirely and swing clean. It reads as a flexible team-pumper and plays as a repeatable bounce engine that happens to add trample, a narrower and more purposeful thing than the flat "up to one target attacking creature" wording lets on.

Scrappy Bruiser (mom)
MOM · #382uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.32
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, up to one target attacking creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. Return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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