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Thrakkus the Butcher

Legendary Creature — Dragon Peasant3 generic manaRed manaGreen mana

Most Dragon payoffs are static: a lord that stands there buffing while the tribe assembles, then swings on a later turn. This one gates its explosion behind a declared attack. The doubling fires as a combat trigger, only on offense, only until end of turn, so the burst is tied to committing to the red zone rather than to simply having the board. Point it at a field of dragons and the trample stops being decoration, because doubled power drives clean through chumps that would blunt a wide swing. The trigger hits every Dragon you control, and the butcher counts himself, so even on an otherwise empty board his 3 power jumps to 6: the ability is never dead, just smaller. The ceiling scales with extra combat steps, since each additional attack is another trigger, and the doubling stacks on whatever it already applied that turn. The Peasant subtype is the flavor turn: a working-class dragon who took up a cleaver instead of hoarding gold, an odd bit of class friction bolted to a body built to close games in a single swing. What the card asks for is a critical mass of large fliers already in play; without that developed board, the payoff shrinks to a solitary 6/4 trampler, which is the tradeoff a doubler this violent has to make.

Thrakkus the Butcher (hbg)
HBG · #250uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.44
Foil: $6.92
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Whenever Thrakkus attacks, double the power of each Dragon you control until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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