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Caller of the Claw

Creature — Elf2 generic manaGreen mana

A board wipe punishes whoever tapped out into it; this is the green answer that turns the wipe against its caster. Held with flash mana up, it converts a sweeper into a wall of bears: every nontoken creature of yours that the wrath kills comes back as a 2/2, replacing the board that just got cleared. The catch is a sequencing trap that runs against instinct. Casting it in response, while the sweeper is still on the stack, does nothing: nothing has died yet, so the count is zero. The correct line is to let the sweeper resolve, watch your creatures hit the graveyard, and only then flash the Caller later that same turn (almost always the opponent's turn, since that is when sweepers usually land), so the dead bodies are already counted and waiting. It rewards a specific read: recognizing the wipe is coming, leaving mana open instead of committing to the loss, and rebuilding the moment the opponent has spent their answer. Damnation, Toxic Deluge, and edict chains all feed it the same way; the requirements are only that the dead creatures are yours, nontoken, and died this turn. The whole design lives in that delayed response: a green body worth nothing in a vacuum, lopsided the instant an opponent commits to clearing your board.

Caller of the Claw (lgn)
LGN · #121rare
Pricing
Normal: $6.82
Foil: $39.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash When this creature enters, create a 2/2 green Bear creature token for each nontoken creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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