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Brood Monitor

Creature — Eldrazi Drone4 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

A 3/3 body arriving stapled to three sacrifice-for-mana tokens is a ramp package disguised as a beater. The pitch is density: this is the single densest Scion source in the Eldrazi support cycle, spilling three 1/1s at once where most of its kin managed one or two. What makes the trio worth casting is the color of the mana they release. Cracking a Scion adds Colorless mana specifically, not merely generic filler: colorless mana pays the generic portion of any cost, but it also satisfies the dedicated colorless pips that the largest Eldrazi at the top of the curve demand, and that distinction is the whole reason the effect exists. So one cast delivers three temporary mana sources, three chump blockers, and a 3/3 that lingers after the Scions are spent, all at once. Devoid keeps only the Drone itself colorless rather than green; the tokens are colorless because the triggered ability says so, not because they inherit the keyword. Either way, every permanent this cast produces reads as colorless, which is precisely the board texture an Eldrazi ramp-and-sacrifice shell is built to accumulate. The card demands nothing beyond a payoff that wants bodies and colorless mana arriving together, which is the exact overlap these archetypes are constructed around.

Brood Monitor (bfz)
BFZ · #164uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $3.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Devoid (This card has no color.) When this creature enters, create three 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add Colorless mana."
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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