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Child of the Volcano

Creature — Elemental3 generic manaRed mana

Descend is the mechanic's payoff written at its most casual: a body that grows only on the turns you feed your own graveyard, once per end step, no more. The condition is deliberately loose (any permanent card hitting the yard from anywhere counts, not just creatures, not just yours dying in combat), which is what keeps the trigger reachable in a fair deck without demanding a sacrifice engine. A fetchland cracking, a self-mill effect, an artifact or enchantment dying, or a plain creature trade all switch it on; note the card requirement, though, which means spending a Treasure or any other token does nothing, since a token is not a card put into the graveyard. What the growth costs is timing: the counter lands at your end step, so the 3/3 that attacked was still a 3/3 when it hit, and it only pulls ahead after the fact. Trample is the connective tissue that makes those accrued counters matter, turning a slow snowball into pressure that ignores chump blockers. The upshot is a creature that rewards a deck already spilling cards into the graveyard as a byproduct of doing other things, rather than one that asks you to build around the trigger. It is a common-rarity anchor for that kind of self-fueling red midrange: unremarkable when your graveyard sits empty, a genuine threat the moment your other spells start filling it, and honest about which of those two games you are actually playing.

Child of the Volcano (lci)
LCI · #140common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
Legalities

Format Status

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