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Topiary Stomper

Creature — Plant Dinosaur1 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

A ramp spell that pretends to be a beater, or a beater with a deferred payoff, depending on how the game breaks. The enters trigger fetches a basic to the battlefield, so a three-mana investment nets a land the turn it lands, the same tempo swing green normally pays for on cards that never fight. The catch is written into the body: the 4/4 sits inert, unable to attack or block, until you control seven or more lands. That threshold gates the aggression behind exactly the kind of board state a ramp deck is building toward anyway, so both halves want the same thing. Early, it is a Rampant Growth stapled to a wall that cannot even block. Later, the same permanent turns on as vigilance-carrying pressure that keeps attacking without surrendering its defense. The design smooths over a classic tension in ramp creatures: the moment a ramp piece stops accelerating and starts closing is usually a dead intermediate turn, but here the accelerant and the finisher live on the same card, and it swaps roles the instant the land count clears the bar. It rewards a deck for doing what it was already going to do, and the acceleration it provides has, by the time the body wakes up, already been spent building the very board state that switches it on.

Topiary Stomper (prm)
PRM · #99711rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. This creature can't attack or block unless you control seven or more lands.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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