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Seismic Elemental

Creature — Elemental3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

The Falter effect on a body, which is a cleaner package than the genre usually offers. Single-turn unblockable spells (the cards that strip away ground defenders so your team can swing through) have always been pure tempo: spend a card, end the game, contribute nothing afterward. Attaching that effect to a 4/4 fixes the structural problem of a Falter, which is that it leaves you down a card if the attack does not finish the job. Here the body stays on the board, so even a non-lethal alpha strike banks a real threat going forward. The wrinkle worth noting is the asymmetry of the wording: it stops only creatures without flying, which means flying blockers still answer the swing and the elemental itself, lacking evasion, gets chump-blocked once defenses recover. That makes it a finisher that wants a wide, grounded board behind it rather than a top-end bomb you cast into nothing. The trigger is one-shot on entry, so its window closes after the combat that follows resolution; flicker and reanimation rebuy the effect, but the card does not loop on its own. A solid synthesis of the Falter lineage with the curve-topping creature, trading the maximal go-wide blowout of a pure spell for the resilience of leaving a body on the table.

Seismic Elemental (ori)
ORI · #161uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, creatures without flying 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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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