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Caustic Bronco

Card Name

Caustic Bronco

Mana Cost

1

Type

Creature – Snake Horse Mount

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

Whenever Caustic Bronco attacks, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. You lose life equal to that card's mana value if Caustic Bronco isn't saddled. Otherwise, each opponent loses that much life.Saddle 3 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)

Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Commander, Explorer, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Pauper

Rulings

(4/12/2024)
If the revealed card doesn't have a mana cost (because it's a land card, for example), its mana value is 0.
(4/12/2024)
If the revealed card's mana cost includes
X
, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
(4/12/2024)
If the revealed card is a split card, that card's mana value is based on the combined mana cost of its two halves.
(4/12/2024)
If Caustic Bronco isn't on the battlefield as its triggered ability resolves, use whether it was saddled or not before it left the battlefield to determine who loses life.
(4/12/2024)
"Saddle N" means "Tap any number of other untapped creatures you control with total power N or greater: This permanent becomes saddled until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."
(4/12/2024)
"Saddled" isn't an ability that a creature has. It's just something true about that creature. It won't stop being saddled until the turn ends or it leaves the battlefield.
(4/12/2024)
Creatures with saddle can attack or block as normal even if they aren't saddled.
(4/12/2024)
If a permanent becomes a copy of a saddled Mount, the copy won't be saddled.
(4/12/2024)
You may activate a permanent's saddle ability even if that permanent is already saddled.
(4/12/2024)
An ability that triggers when a creature "attacks while saddled" will trigger only if that creature was saddled when it was declared as an attacker.