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Sun-Crested Pterodon

Creature — Dinosaur4 generic manaWhite mana

The 2/5 body wants to block, but the vigilance rider wants to attack, and the card only becomes coherent once you resolve that pull by committing to the tribe. The toughness is built to park in the air and eat incoming flyers; the conditional vigilance switches on only when you control another Dinosaur, at which point the creature can start swinging without dropping its guard. That is the whole tension: a defensive stat line paired with an offensive incentive that pays out only when you go wide on one creature type. The reward is deliberately modest (vigilance on a five-mana 2/5 does not warp a game), which keeps this in the tribal-payoff tier rather than the build-around tier. Its quiet job is cohesion: a flyer that patrols the skies while the ground force advances, feeding the Dinosaur count that other tribal cards care about while asking nothing in return. Strip the tribe away and the vigilance clause goes dead, leaving an oversized, underpowered evasive wall. This is filler with a tribal incentive attached, built to reward tribal density without pretending to anchor a deck.

Sun-Crested Pterodon (rix)
RIX · #27common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying This creature has vigilance as long as you control another Dinosaur.
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
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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