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Shifting Ceratops

Creature — Dinosaur2 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

A green beater built specifically to be miserable for blue to answer. Protection from blue is doing narrow but total work here: no Counterspell can counter it (the uncounterable clause covers the cast, protection covers the rest), no bounce spell targets it, no blue creature can block it, and no Control Magic effect steals it. That is the entire pitch. Green has always had big bodies; what this one carries is a hard lock against the one color built to trump them, printed as a hoser with a five-power body attached rather than a sideboard card that sits idle when the matchup is wrong. The activated ability keeps it relevant when blue is not across the table: reach to catch fliers, trample to push through chumps, haste to close out of nowhere, each available at instant speed and repeatable so long as you hold up mana. Nothing about the toughness is generous (four points fold to plenty of noncreature removal outside blue), but the tradeoff is deliberate. It is a Dinosaur aimed at a specific archetype, sized so it always demands a card in trade, and specialized so that against the deck it was built to punish, it is very close to unkillable.

Shifting Ceratops (m20)
M20 · #194rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.70
Oracle Text

Rules text

This spell can't be countered. Protection from blue (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything blue.) Green mana: This creature gains your choice of reach, trample, or haste until end of 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
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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