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Chevill, Bane of Monsters

Legendary Creature — Human RogueBlack manaGreen mana

The upkeep trigger tags one of their creatures or planeswalkers with a bounty counter, but the reward (three life and a card) only fires when that permanent dies, and the counter re-arms only once every bounty on their side is gone. The elegance is that the payout is fully within your control: point a removal spell at the bountied permanent yourself and you both clear a threat and collect the loot, so the counter effectively refunds your interaction. Deathtouch closes the same loop from the other direction, turning a defensive body into a kill-on-contact blocker that converts any bountied attacker into a death trigger. The opponent's choices only narrow the trap further: leave the marked permanent alive and you hold a permanent tax on their board while the counter waits; trade it away and you draw the card regardless of who did the killing. That is what elevates a 1/3 for two beyond a durdle. The design collapses removal, card advantage, and life gain into a single passive engine that compounds as long as the game keeps producing dead permanents on the far side of the table, and it runs that engine from behind a wall the deathtouch makes genuinely unpleasant to attack into.

Chevill, Bane of Monsters (piko)
PIKO · #181smythic
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Deathtouch At the beginning of your upkeep, if your opponents control no permanents with bounty counters on them, put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls. Whenever a permanent an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it dies, you gain 3 life and draw a card.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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