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Trench Behemoth

Creature — Kraken5 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The landfall trigger reveals a Kraken built for the multiplayer table rather than the duel: compelling an opponent's creature to attack during its next combat is a disruption of their plans, not a tempo play. It reads adjacent to goad, but it does something goad does not: goad forces the creature to attack and specifically bars it from attacking you, while this only compels the attack and leaves the defending player entirely up to the attacking creature's controller. In other words, you are yanking a blocker off defense or committing an opponent's threat to a swing they did not want to make, without any control over where it lands (including, potentially, at you). That difference matters, because it makes this a scalpel for combat math rather than a shield. The bounce ability ties the two halves together. Returning a land to hand untaps the Behemoth and grants hexproof, protecting it through the swings you have engineered; replaying that land the following turn re-triggers landfall for another forced attack. The cost is real (you set your own development back a land drop each cycle), but it lets the creature attack, block, and dodge targeted removal in the same turn while manufacturing combat elsewhere. As a blue finisher it is unusual precisely because blue rarely scripts other players' attack steps: the color's control almost always comes from stopping combat, not authoring it.

Trench Behemoth (cmr)
CMR · #366rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Untap this creature. It gains hexproof until end of turn. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target creature an opponent controls attacks during its controller's next combat phase if able.
Legalities

Format Status

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