The Great Forest

The static ability here quietly rewires combat math for every player at the table: damage keys off toughness instead of power, which is a rare thing to see stated so bluntly. It inverts the usual creature calculus. A 1/4 wall now hits for four; a 4/1 aggressor connects for one. Defensive bodies become threats, and the entire population of high-power, low-toughness beaters that combat is normally built around gets flattened into irrelevance. Because the effect is symmetrical, it does not reward one board over another so much as it rewards a different board: the fat-butt creatures nobody swings with suddenly do real work. The chaos trigger then leans into that same axis, handing your team +0/+2 and trample, a buff that ignores power entirely and stacks toughness (which is now the damage stat) while pushing it through blockers. Both halves of this plane pull in one direction: it is not a random swing but a coherent statement that toughness is king while you are here. The result is a battlefield where the timid survive and the aggressive stall, a genuinely disorienting inversion for anyone whose combat instincts were built on power being the number that matters.