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Colossal Dreadmaw artwork from Magic the Gathering.

Colossal Dreadmaw

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About

Colossal Dreadmaw is an exploitable and creature card in the customizable card game Magic the Gathering, first printed in the Ixalan set. The card has been the subject of jokes and memes among the Magic community for its initial redundancy compared to other creature cards printed in its initial set, a large amount of reprinting of the card within subsequent sets over the course of four years and parodies or photoshops created by fans of the game online.

Origin

The Colossal Dreadmaw card was originally released in the Ixalan expansion block on September 29th, 2017 (seen below, left).[1] Reception among the Magic community declared the card largely "redundant" for competitive use when compared to the card Carnage Tyrant, which many felt effectively did its job better in comparison while having the exact same casting cost as the former. The card was reprinted for the following set Rivals of Ixalan on January 18th, 2018, much to the community's perplexed astonishment, sporting a changed flavor text (seen below, right).[2]


Colossal Dreadmaw Creature – Dinosaur - Trample |If you feel the ground quake, run. If you hear its bellow, flee. If you see its teeth, it's too late. 6/6 180/279 C XLN • EN KO JESPER EJSING TM & © 2017 Wizards of the Coast Colossal Dreadmaw Creature - Dinosaur Trample "Remember when it was the most terrifying thing you'd ever seen?" Captain Lannery Storm 6/6 125/196 C RIX • EN K JESPER EJSING TM & © 2018 Wizards of the Coast

Since its debut, it has had multiple reprints over the years in subsequent sets, the latest of which occurred in Core Set 2021 on July 3rd, 2020.

Spread

Colossal Dreadmaw garnered significant parodies or memes among Magic the Gathering communities, especially on the subreddit /r/magicthecirclejerking,[4] a community where memes involving the cardgame are commonplace. One such example was posted to /r/magicthecirclejerking[5] on June 11th, 2018, by Redditor Average_Toaster, receiving over 1,600 upvotes and 210 comments in six months. In the comments, users discussed the humor of the card, with Redditor PraiseTheKappa accumulating 621 upvotes for their top reply of "At this point WotC are just memeing us, aren't they…?"

On September 19th, 2018, Redditor[6] SaltedDucks posted a meme featuring the card using That Wasn't Very Cash Money Of You, receiving 979 upvotes and 12 comments in six months (seen below, left). On June 12th, 2020, Redditor RWT1998 posted another example to /r/DinosaursMTG,[7] receiving nearly 100 upvotes in four months (seen below, right).


When you don't get reprinted in Guilds of Ravnica that wasn't very cash money of you Wizards reprinted a common dinosaur i sleep It's Colossal Dreadmaw real s---?

On January 8th, 2019, YouTuber[8] MTGGoldfish uploaded a video discussing Colossal Dreadmaw, which references it as "the meme card Colossal Dreadmaw," accumulating over 37,100 views, 728 likes and 117 comments in nearly two years (shown below).



Various Examples


My girlfriend dressed up as colossal dreadmaw and promised me that she would break up with one of her 5 boyfriends. I'm so lucky Colossal Dreadmaw Creature - Dinosaur Trample If you feel the ground quake, run. If you hear its bellow, flee. If you see its teeth, it's too late. 6/6 180/279 C XLN. EN IESPER EISING TM & © 2017 Wizards of the Coast Colossal, Lord HighDreadmaw 2 00 Legendary Creature HumanDinosaur When Colossal Lord High Dreadmawenters the battlefield, create a 6/6 colorless Dinosaur artifact creature token with Trample Tap an untapped Dinosauryou control: Add . 5: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may feel the ground quake.it's too late. 6/6 075/254 M MH1 EN OGRZEGORZ RUTKOWSKI TM &O 2019 Wizards of the Coast Blue Colossal Dreadmaw 400 Creature – Dinosaur Trampmill, trampmill, trampmill (Excess damage this creature would deal is dealt in the form of milling three cards per point of excess damage. If it's not blocked, it deals damage normally.) 6/6 1/1 HCB EN O PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPH C Not For Sale TM & © 2020 Wizards of the Coast REBOUND-SPLICE • MTG.Design

HOW DO WE KNOW IF THEY'RE ACTUALLY DEAD OR JUST PRETENDING Colossa l dreadmaw R/magictnecirclejerking @SpaceboyCantLol НАНАНА НАНАНА (НАНАНА НАНАНА Colossal Megamaw Legendary Creature -Dreadmaw Dinosaur Megatrample (This creature has trample. When this creature is blocked and deals combat damage to an opponent, Colossal Megamaw gets a +1/+1 counter) Megaenrage (Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it gets a +1/+1 counter. It must survive the damage for this to occur) If you feel the ground quake, run. If you hear its bellow, flee. If you see its teeth, it's too late. 6/6 Colossalest Dreadmaw Legendary Planeswalker- Dreadmaw Search your library for a card named Colossal +3 1: Dreadmaw, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library. Put a card named Colossal Dreadmaw from your hand onto the battlefield. -3 -12( All nonland cards in all zones lose all abilities and become 6/6 green dinosaur creature cards with trample named Colossal Dreadmaw. 6 Jesper Ejsing http://mtgeardsmith.com/

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Colossal Dreadmaw Creature – Dinosaur - Trample |If you feel the ground quake, run. If you hear its bellow, flee. If you see its teeth, it's too late. 6/6 180/279 C XLN • EN KO JESPER EJSING TM & © 2017 Wizards of the Coast

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External References

[1] Wizards – Ixalan

[2] Wizards – Rivals Ixalan

[3] Wizards – Core Set 2021

[4] Reddit – r/magicthecirclejerking

[5] Reddit – r/magicthecirclejerking

[6] Reddit – SaltedDucks

[7] Reddit – r/DinosaursMTG

[8] YouTube – MTGGoldfish

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