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Crabomination

Creature — Crab Demon4 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Most emerge creatures ask you to sacrifice a spent creature to buy in cheap; this one changes the fuel line, letting an artifact go on the pyre instead and reducing the emerge cost by that artifact's mana value. The math is worth reading carefully: emerging costs 5 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana, a mana more than the 4 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana hard cast, so a mana-value-zero Treasure actually makes the creature more expensive, not less. The discount only turns positive once you feed it something worth two or more, which points the card toward a black artifact shell with real bodies to sacrifice: a spent Chromatic Star, a mid-value equipment, a dead mana rock. The enter trigger is the real hook. Instead of committing to one zone the way most black theft effects do, it raids three at once (the top of the opponent's library, a random card from their graveyard, a random card from their hand) and then offers a free cast from among them. The breadth is the point. Against a hellbent opponent the library card keeps the effect from whiffing; against a full grip the hand-strip doubles as disruption. Randomness is the honest tax on that reach: you gamble across what they happen to hold rather than surgically extracting the bomb, and the free-cast rider only pays when the roll lands on something you can actually resolve. Emerge has long pointed outward as much as inward, so the theft-plus-body shape is lineage; what this one adds is spread, a plundering rake across every zone backed by a 5/5 that turns the plunder into a clock.

Crabomination (pmh3)
PMH3 · #85srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Emerge from artifact 5 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana (You may cast this spell by sacrificing an artifact and paying the emerge cost reduced by that artifact's mana value.) When this creature enters, target opponent exiles the top card of their library, a card at random from their graveyard, and a card at random from their hand. You may cast a spell from among cards exiled this way without paying its mana cost.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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