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Corpse Cur

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Dog4 generic mana

The enters-the-battlefield clause is what marks this as an infect-deck card rather than an infect-creature card. A 2/2 with infect for four mana is a poor rate on its own; poison decks live and die on cheap, evasive threats, and this is neither cheap nor evasive. What it offers instead is graveyard recursion that only an infect strategy can use: every removal spell or chump block your opponent spends on your poison creatures becomes a card you can buy back, turning the attrition math in favor of the player who is already counting to ten. That self-referential design (an infect creature that retrieves other infect creatures) is the kind of glue a corner-case mechanic needs to function as a deck rather than a pile of unrelated bodies. The Phyrexian Dog flavor frames it as exactly that role: a scavenger that drags the fallen back to the front line, which is also a tidy description of what the card does at the table. Outside a build committed to the -1/-1-counter-and-poison axis it does nothing worth the four mana, and that narrowness is the point; it was made to reward going all-in on a payoff structure that otherwise had little redundancy.

Corpse Cur (som)
SOM · #147common
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil: $2.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) When this creature enters, you may return target creature card with infect from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

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