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Two-Headed Giant

Creature — Giant Warrior2 generic manaRed manaRed mana

A 4/4 for four mana with no abilities is a draft-pack creature nobody writes about, so the design here is the coin flips bolted onto the attack trigger: every swing rolls for a payoff. The structure is deliberately lopsided. Both heads gives double strike, which on a 4/4 means eight damage from a single attacker; both tails gives menace, a consolation prize that still pushes the body through a single blocker. But the most likely result, one head and one tail, is the silent majority of outcomes and grants nothing at all, leaving you with a plain 4/4 that just attacked into whatever was waiting. That is the joke and the honesty of the design at once: a swing that, more often than not, does exactly what the stat line promised before the coins landed. The Giant Warrior body and the doubled-up name are the flavor (two heads, two coins) carried into the rules, a literalism that the flip-a-coin tradition has always traded in. It belongs to the lineage of coin-flip red that stretches back to the chaos-magic designs of the game's earliest sets: a mechanic that asks you to accept variance as the entry fee for an upside the rate alone would not justify. The reward is real when both heads come up; the price is every turn the coins refuse to cooperate.

Two-Headed Giant (pdom)
PDOM · #147srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, flip two coins. If both coins come up heads, this creature gains double strike until end of turn. If both coins come up tails, this creature gains menace until end of turn.
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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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