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Titanic Bulvox

Creature — Beast6 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

A 7/4 trample body for eight mana is a price almost nobody pays at face value, and the morph mechanic is what makes that body worth printing at all. Cast face down for three, the Beast sits as an anonymous 2/2 that says nothing about what it becomes. The flip to a 7/4 trampler costs 4 generic manaGreen manaGreen manaGreen mana, and the trick is the timing: an unblocked 2/2 can turn face up mid-combat, after blocks are declared, so the defender who chumped or ignored the small creature suddenly faces a 7/4 that tramples over their blocker instead of a harmless 2/2. The card weaponizes the bluff inherent to every morph: the opponent has to decide how to block a 2/2 that might be sitting on seven mana of hidden upside. That guessing game, not the raw stat line, is the design. The trample rider is the detail that makes the flip lethal rather than merely large, punishing the blocker who commits too little to a creature whose true size is hidden. As a hard-cast threat the Bulvox is overpriced for what it does; as a morph it converts a cheap, low-information board presence into a combat-step ambush, which is the entire reason the front side reads 7/4 instead of something the printed cost could justify on its own.

Titanic Bulvox (scg)
SCG · #129common
Pricing
Normal: $0.04
Foil: $0.65
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Morph 4 generic manaGreen manaGreen manaGreen mana (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Legalities

Format Status

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