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Overzealous Muscle

First printed in Outlaws of Thunder Junction (2024)

Overzealous Muscle

Creature — Ogre Mercenary

Whenever you commit a crime during your turn, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy a creature with indestructible.)

Not everyone can be a pickpocket.

5/4

Illustrated by
Sam White

Legality

Rulings (5)

  • A player can commit only one crime per spell or ability they control. Targeting multiple opponents, permanents, spells, abilities, and/or cards with the same spell or ability doesn’t constitute committing multiple crimes.
  • Changing the target or targets of a spell or ability won’t affect whether or not the controller of that spell or ability has committed a crime. Only the initial targets chosen for that spell or ability are used to determine whether or not its controller committed a crime.
  • The spell or ability that constituted a crime doesn’t have to have resolved yet or at all. As soon as you’re finished casting the spell, activating the ability, or putting the triggered ability on the stack, you’ve committed a crime.
  • For example, an ability that triggers when you cast a spell that targets an opponent will trigger at the same time as an ability that triggers whenever you commit a crime. Those abilities can be put on the stack in either order (if you control them both), and they’ll both resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.
  • A player commits a crime as they cast a spell, activate an ability, or put a triggered ability on the stack that targets at least one opponent, at least one permanent, spell, or ability an opponent controls, and/or at least one card in an opponent’s graveyard.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Overzealous Muscle in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Premier Draft 49.8% -4.4 -0.7 28026
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Sealed 52.8% -2.5 +1.2 1308
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen