Magic the Gathering

Terastodon 3{G}{G}{G}
Crea­ture — Ele­phant (Rare)
When Terastodon enters the bat­tle­field, you may destroy up to three tar­get non­crea­ture per­ma­nents. For each per­ma­nent destroyed in this way, its con­troller puts a 3/3 green Ele­phant crea­ture token onto the bat­tle­field.
9/9
#115/145
Artist: Lars Grant-West

1. This makes me so mad. It’s a rare, costs 8 frig­gin’ mana, and makes you chose between destroy­ing three of your own per­ma­nents for ele­phants or giv­ing your oppo­nent three chump block­ing and poten­tially Terastodon-killing ele­phants. Gah!

   Excuse: it’s a Johnny card.

   But I’m a Johnny and it just ticks me off.

   John Golden | January 22, 2010, 4:29 pm | #

2. You could just choose to give your oppo­nent 1 ele­phant, it is up to 3.

   ManaNation | January 22, 2010, 4:59 pm | #

3. or none, it isn’t a part of the cost, it’s a ‘may’

   I think of it as a land eater… once you have 8 mana, you could prob­a­bly afford to chomp 3 of them and get your­self a small ele’army

   PastProphet | January 23, 2010, 10:53 am | #

4. The self destruc­tion is the way to go. Or you can even mix it up. knock off two lands and their best perm. you still have 2 to 1 3/3’s plus and 9/9.

   mtgxman | January 23, 2010, 4:30 pm | #

5. The Terastodon is a good card, you can destroy planewalk­ers (planeswalker is not a crea­ture), or destroy small crea­tures and put ele­phants 3/3.

   Baneador | January 23, 2010, 7:41 pm | #

6. This is a good card because you got lots of options with it. It doesn’t force you to do any­thing when it comes into play, so the worst the card can be is 8 mana for a 9/9. I just wish it had trample.

   pantherbuege | January 27, 2010, 6:36 pm | #

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