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Trumpeting Armodon

Creature — Elephant3 generic manaGreen mana

The genius of the design is the activated ability, which turns a plain 3/3 body into a creature that dictates combat math from the attacking side. Lure effects usually live on the defending player's permanent or get cast as auras; here the elephant pays its own way, forcing a single chosen blocker to step in front. That repeatability is the load-bearing part: the ability is reusable, so a removal-light opponent has to keep feeding chump blockers or watch a key creature get walked into a bad trade. The targeting is deliberately narrow (one creature, not all of them), which keeps it from being an all-in alpha-strike enabler the way mass-lure auras can be, and the green mana attached to each activation makes you choose between forcing a block and developing the rest of your turn. What it really does is convert excess mana into combat tempo: a green deck that has outgrown its early curve gets a mana sink that removes a blocker without spending a card. The 3/3 frame stays modest on purpose, because the value was always meant to be the activation, not the trample-less beater underneath it.

Trumpeting Armodon (brb)
BRB · #90uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic manaGreen mana: Target creature blocks this creature this turn 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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
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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