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Blooming Stinger

Creature — Plant Scorpion1 generic manaGreen mana

Deathtouch is usually a defensive keyword, a way for a small body to trade up and discourage attacks; this design turns it into a proactive tool. The creature carries deathtouch itself, but the entry trigger hands the keyword to a second creature you already control for the turn, which is where the interesting math lives. Deathtouch pairs with anything that spreads damage: a creature with trample now punches through the smallest possible blocker for lethal, a first-striker kills before it can be killed, and a fight or ping effect trades one instance of damage for a whole creature. The trigger fires on entry, so the window is fixed to the turn it arrives, but the body it lands on doesn't have to be the new one: point it at your best attacker and the value scales with what you already have on board. That is the quiet efficiency here. A vanilla-adjacent two-power body with deathtouch is a reasonable roadblock, and the enters trigger converts it into a green combat-math enabler that rewards a battlefield already built to hit hard. It asks for a follow-through the way most green two-drops don't, giving the color a small dose of the removal-by-combat that it otherwise has to earn through fights and bites.

Blooming Stinger (eoe)
EOE · #174common
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

Deathtouch When this creature enters, another target creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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