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Tectonic Hellion

Creature — Hellion5 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Land destruction that scales with the table, aimed at whoever is winning the mana race rather than any particular opponent. The attack trigger only bites the player or players tied for the most lands, which means it self-corrects: the more one deck ramps ahead, the more it bleeds, and a defender sitting behind the curve pays nothing. That targeting logic is the whole point. It does not flatten the board so much as tax the leader, and because sacrifice is left to the affected player's choice, the punishment is real without being crippling in a single swing. The 8/5 haste body means the tax begins the moment it enters combat and the clock is genuine on its own, but five toughness is soft enough that it dies to most of the removal a multiplayer table is holding. The design tension worth noticing is that the trigger fires regardless of who you swing at, so a controller can keep the ramp decks honest across the whole table without committing to combat math against a single foe. It is a group-slug piece dressed as a beater: a way to make greedy manabases pay rent every combat step, wielded most naturally by a deck that has already decided to keep its own land count modest.

Tectonic Hellion (c19)
C19 · #29rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste Whenever this creature attacks, each player who controls the most lands sacrifices two lands of their choice.
Legalities

Format Status

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