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Tromokratis

Legendary Creature — Kraken5 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The two abilities here are a closed feedback loop, and the design joke is that one punishes you for everything the other invites. Hexproof while it sits back means an 8/8 you cannot answer with targeted removal, so the obvious line is to leave it untapped and never expose it. But the unblockable clause flips the moment it swings: the only way to stop it in combat is to commit every creature the defending player controls to the block, which is the design's idea of a Pyrrhic victory. Throw your whole board in front of a kraken and most of it dies; refuse, and 8 damage walks in clean. The card frames combat as a gangplank dilemma where the chump is mandatory and total. The seam between the two clauses is where the card actually lives: to attack or block is to surrender the hexproof, so the window for any removal that does target is precisely the turn it commits to combat. That makes it a sea monster that wants to threaten rather than connect, a clock that extracts a worse trade the longer the defender stalls. As a top-end finisher it reads less like a beater and more like an ultimatum: block with all of it or none of it, and either way the math favors the kraken.

Tromokratis (pbng)
PBNG · #55★rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking. Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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