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Vaultborn Tyrant

Creature — Dinosaur5 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Green's payoffs for going big have usually been terminal: a fatty resolves, it threatens lethal, and if it dies you have spent seven mana on nothing. This one refuses to end the transaction there. The power-4-or-greater trigger turns your whole board of large creatures into a life-and-cards engine, so the same board that was already attacking now refills your hand every time another threat lands, and the death clause means removing it costs the opponent a card without netting them tempo: kill it and you get an artifact copy of it back, engine and body intact. That second half is the more interesting piece of design. Green has spent most of its history bad at recursion and bad at insurance; here the insurance is baked into the creature itself, gated only by the token clause so the copy cannot loop infinitely off a sacrifice outlet. The result is a card that answers the two things that normally make expensive green creatures a liability, card disadvantage and vulnerability to removal, in a single frame, without leaving green's lane of just being enormous. The trample is almost incidental to how it wins, and the real threat is that trading with it barely slows the flow of cards.

Vaultborn Tyrant (big)
BIG · #50mythic
Pricing
Normal: $83.98
Foil: $116.03
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Whenever this creature or another creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, you gain 3 life and draw a card. When this creature dies, if it's not a token, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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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