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Wild Mammoth

Creature — Elephant2 generic manaGreen mana

A 3/4 for three mana that holds the ground and trades up the curve, this Elephant carries a leash that points away from its caster. At the start of your upkeep, an ability checks the board and hands the creature to whoever controls strictly more creatures than every other player. The margin clause is the whole engine: a tie fails the condition and the Mammoth stays where it sits, so only a player who genuinely pulls ahead in count gets to claim it. That sharpens green's instinct to flood the board rather than blunting it. Build the widest battlefield and the body migrates to you; lose the lead and it walks. The design turns a stat line into a recurring referendum on board dominance, the Mammoth shuffling between players like a contested marker that always sits with the front-runner. The trigger asks nothing of its controller, no payment, no decision, just a question posed on its controller's upkeep about who has committed the most creatures, and early-era sets were full of these tension-as-mechanic builds, abilities that converted ownership itself into a negotiation. The axis the card lives on is not its combat math but the fight over the creature lead, a contest most green bodies never make you wage.

Wild Mammoth (nem)
NEM · #124uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $1.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player controls more creatures than each other player, the player who controls the most creatures gains control of this creature.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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