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Stampede Rider

Creature — Satyr2 generic manaRed mana

The design lever here is the word "each." A 2/3 with trample for 2 generic manaRed mana is a plain body, but the conditional buff checks in on both your combat and your opponent's, so once you have a heavy hitter (something with four power on the board), the Satyr swings as a 3/4 on offense and blocks as a 3/4 on defense. That two-way symmetry sets it apart from the usual anthem-style rider, which only cares about your own attack step: this creature keeps its enlarged toughness on the crackback, absorbing a hit it could not survive at its printed size. The threshold it wants is a mid-curve one, which places the card in the long red lineage of beaters that reward you for already having committed to the board rather than getting you started: it wants to be the second or third creature down, not the first. Trample is the piece that makes the extra power spendable, so the +1/+1 spills through a chump rather than getting wasted on it. It is a modest, functional expression of the "my big creatures make my small creatures bigger" reward structure, priced so that it only pays out after you have done the work of assembling a threat to trigger it.

Stampede Rider (thb)
THB · #155common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample At the beginning of each combat, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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