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Sun-Crowned Hunters

Creature — Dinosaur4 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Enrage flips the usual penalty for blocking on its head: anything that pings this 5/4 (a blocker, a burn spell, a fight effect) gets punished by three damage straight to the opponent's face or one of their planeswalkers. That the trigger reaches past creatures to hit players and planeswalkers is the wrinkle that gives it teeth. Most Enrage Dinosaurs reward you for surviving combat by drawing or growing; this one converts incoming damage into a direct burst at the enemy, which means trading blows with it is never clean for the attacker or the blocker. The body is large enough to demand an answer, and the cheapest answers (a one-mana ping, a chip from a smaller creature) are exactly what set off the trigger, so the opponent is taxed three life for the privilege of chipping it down. Spot removal that destroys without dealing damage sidesteps the whole thing, which is the discipline that keeps it honest: the punishment only lands when the answer is itself a damage source. Stacked self-damage effects turn it into a repeatable Lava Spike, but on its own it is a deliberate top-of-curve Dinosaur built to make every combat math problem resolve in its controller's favor.

Sun-Crowned Hunters (xln)
XLN · #164common
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.48
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
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
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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