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Thundering Spineback

Creature — Dinosaur5 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Two engines stacked in one body: a static anthem for the tribe and a repeatable token factory that feeds it. The lord effect rewards a board already wide with Dinosaurs, while the activated ability builds that board from scratch, each 3/3 trample token arriving already buffed to 4/4 the moment it joins its kin. That self-referential loop is the design conceit. A token maker that pumps the tokens it makes turns mana into an escalating threat curve rather than a flat one, and trample on those bodies means the anthem converts directly into damage that gets through instead of getting chump-blocked away. The cost structure is what keeps it from running away: seven mana to deploy and another six to crank out each token mark this as a top-of-the-curve payoff that demands a board state already worth investing in, not a value piece you drop and forget. Green's tribal payoffs have usually split the jobs (a lord here, a token generator there); folding both into a single card that scales with itself is the wrinkle at work here. Flood the board, then watch flooding the board turn lethal.

Thundering Spineback (lcc)
LCC · #260uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Other Dinosaurs you control get +1/+1. 5 generic manaGreen mana: Create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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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