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Bellowing Crier

Creature — Frog Advisor1 generic manaBlue mana

The looting body is one of the oldest ways to package card selection onto a creature: an early attacker that filters your draws without netting extra cards. What makes this iteration worth building around is that the draw-then-discard is neither optional nor modal. You always draw, then you always pitch, and that certainty is exactly what a graveyard deck wants from a two-drop. On the front, a 2/1 for two is a fine early attacker or blocker, cheap enough that the body is rarely dead. On the back, the enter-the-battlefield loot doubles as a discard outlet with upside, turning what would be a raw pitch into a filtered one: bin a reanimation target, feed a madness card, ditch a flashback spell you would rather cast from the yard than the hand. The order matters. Because the draw resolves first, you can loot into the very thing you then discard, a promise a discard-first effect cannot make. This is the familiar blue frame of a summon that converts into a filter, and its ceiling is set almost entirely by what else the deck wants in its graveyard: on its own it is a body attached to a wash of cards (one in, one out, hand size unchanged); alongside cards that reward being discarded, the loot becomes the point and the 2/1 becomes the delivery mechanism.

Bellowing Crier (blb)
BLB · #42common
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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