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Tyrranax Rex

Creature — Phyrexian Dinosaur4 generic manaGreen manaGreen manaGreen mana

Poison as a wincon has always fought the same problem: infect and toxic want you to commit to small evasive threats, and small evasive threats fold to a single blocker or a sweeper. This is the answer that ignores the premise. Toxic 4 means one connection puts four of the ten poison counters on the board, and everything else on the card exists to guarantee that connection lands. The 8/8 body clears most ground blockers on rate; trample means chump-blocking only delays the poison rather than stopping it; haste collapses the clock to the turn it resolves; and ward 4 taxes the removal that would otherwise trade down for it. The uncounterable clause protects the cast itself, so the whole package resolves as a threat that has to be answered on the battlefield, at a price. What makes it notable as design is the reframing: rather than build poison around evasion and redundancy, it stacks every protective keyword onto one large creature and dares the opponent to survive two swings. Two toxic connections put eight of the ten counters down, which turns any incidental poison source into a two-turn kill and lets a single extra hit close it outright. It is the green top-end a poison deck can run without abandoning the top-end a green deck already wants: a beater that wins on damage against decks that ignore poison and on counters against decks that respect it.

Tyrranax Rex (pone)
PONE · #189pmythic
Pricing
Normal: $7.30
Foil: $8.43
Oracle Text

Rules text

This spell can't be countered. Trample, ward 4 generic mana, haste Toxic 4 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get four poison counters.)
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

Other printings

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