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Treetop Rangers

Creature — Elf Ranger2 generic manaGreen mana

Pseudo-evasion through a back door: rather than handing the creature a keyword, the design quietly rewrites who may legally declare a block, leaving fliers as the only creatures permitted to step in front. Against a deck of grounded blockers, that means the damage simply lands. It is the same combat logic that normally shields flying attackers from earthbound defenders, inverted to push a ground creature past everything that walks. Green almost never gets to walk past a wall of blockers, so the color identity here runs slightly against pattern: the body is plain, but it threatens to connect nearly every turn against the wide ground boards green tends to face and build. The catch is built into the same clause that grants the evasion: it offers no answer to fliers, so a single token flier or a cheap evasive blocker shuts it down cleanly, and it contributes nothing when you are the one defending. This belongs to the older school of evasion design, before keyword inflation, when "can't be blocked except by X" was a standard way to carve a narrow lane through combat without resorting to outright unblockable. That phrasing makes the creature a dependable clock and a serviceable carrier for combat tricks or auras, since the prospect of repeated unblocked damage forces an opponent to find a real answer rather than a chump block.

Treetop Rangers (usg)
USG · #279common
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying.
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
Legal
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