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Skyclave Geopede

Creature — Insect2 generic manaRed mana

The math is the whole point, and the math is punishing to the wrong side. A 3/1 for three trades badly with almost anything on turn three, but the landfall trigger converts every land drop into a 5/3 trampler for a turn, and any land that fetches a second land stacks two triggers on one attack for a 7/5, all of it running over blockers on the way down. That is the design compact: the toughness never grows on the base body, so it dies to a single ping or a chump-and-trade the moment a land is not entering, but connect on a turn with two lands and the trample keyword makes the whole bonus land as damage rather than getting soaked by a token. It rewards the deck built to keep dropping lands rather than the one that curves out and stops, which is why it lives alongside additional-land-drop effects and land-recursion that keep triggers coming past the point a normal deck runs dry. The 1 toughness is not a flaw to be played around so much as the reason the aggression stays cheap: a creature that hit this hard on a durable body would cost more or care about more. Here the fragility is the price, paid up front, for an attacker whose ceiling on the right turn is genuinely absurd.

Skyclave Geopede (znr)
ZNR · #301uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gets +2/+2 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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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