Pointed Discussion

Gruul War Plow + 2X Anthem of Rakdos + Hellbent + 1/1 blockers= 1/1's hitting your opponents for 76 damage. Enjoy. :3

Good for a creature based deck.

funny flavor text

Have Stonebrow, Krosan Hero ride at the helm of the War Plow.

I think BDradon123 got hit in the head with a gruul war plow, because his math makes no sense. o_O

i enjoy screaming the flavor text at random intevals.

Huh, lets try to math this out. Your 1/1 attackers each get +4/+0 from the anthems. They have trample from the plow, and when they hit, they deal double, double, courtesy of anthems. That means, that when doubled twice, and the opponent has only an equivalent number of 1/1s to block, each one will be hitting opponent face for either 19 or 16 damage, depending on how doubling damage and trample works(i have no idea).
for clarity:
1/1->5/1 trample.(anthem)
Assign 1 damage to blocker, 4 to opponent
Double to 2 and 8
double again to 4 and 16
16 damage sticks. possibly. someone correct me on this, i am just running ideas around.

People can sometimes forget this can turn into a creature and block too. An interesting colorless Primal Rage that can come to life and hurt things as well, and not a bad card.

I like how this is the only juggernaut that doesn't have to attack each turn.

@Bdragon123
Where the hell did you learn math?

Mr. Plow, that's my name
That name again is Mr. Plow

What does a good beatdown deck need more than anything? Green's favorite keyword, trample. And this nice little artifact provides it very well, even giving you the option to animate it for a turn. An excellent card that must be considered for R/G decks.

Am i the only one that finds it odd that a member of the Gruul clans is using a word like "apparatus"?

2 seems like an odd number. Is it possible that mr BDragon meant to write 4?

16, x2, x2 again = 32 x 2 = 64. oh and don't they each give another +2? which is doubled twice, for a total of 8? therefore...64 + 8 = 72.

I myself am probably also off- but if you suggest that BDragon typod when he listed the number of each card, does some combination War Plows, Anthems, and 1/1 blockers yield the 76 damage he claims he can make?

BDradon123 makes perfect sense when you look from what I assume is his point of view.

He takes Trample to mean two separate instances of assigning damage which, considering Anthem of Rakdos' wording, would each be doubled twice.

So, what we have is the following:

A 1/1 gets +4/+0 from the two anthems, becoming a 5/1 with trample, due to the Warplow, and attacks. It is then blocked by a 1/1. It is at this point that, using BDragon123's interpretation of the rules, that the 5/1 deals damage to the creature, which is doubled twice (5x2x2 = 20). So 20 damage is dealt to the 1/1, crushing it into oblivion. However, since the creature has trample, 19 damage gets through to the player. This is very important since BDragon123 considers this to be another instance of dealing damage which would then be doubled twice, again.

So we have 19x2 = 38, 38x2=76. So 76 damage if BDragon123's interpretation of how trample combined with Anthem's damage doubling ability would work is correct.

Does anyone know for sure? The 702.19 rulings word trample as dealing damage first to the creature, then to the player. From those words I think BDragon123 has his head on straight after all!