"Cragplate Baloth is Pain"

 "Cragplate Baloth is Pain"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

Just looking at this guy brings images of pain. For 7 mana you get to have a 6/6 creature on the battlefield that has Hexproof and Haste , meaning that 6/6 frame can smash face right away.

If you are a Blue player , short of having an Unsubstantiate in your hand you would not be able to counter this. And once it does land on the battlefield if you are playing Black short of having Innocent Blood or other sacrifice effects there is also nothing much that you can do. 

Oh wait this guy also has a kicker for 3 mana. Now normally 10 mana is an abnormally high mana cost but this is Green that we are talking about. The same Standard Green that will have access to Lotus Cobra , Azusa and Cultivate. Hooboy. 

The only downside the I see for this big boy is that it lacks Trample. And a lone 1/1 Saproling can just stand in it's way all day. Oh well , this won't be much of a problem in EDH decks that have access to Bow of Nylea or even cards from Ikoria that will give this a Trample counter. The pain will come.