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Draugr Necromancer

Snow Creature — Zombie Cleric3 generic manaBlack mana

Theft effects usually take one creature and stop there; this one rewrites your opponent's death step into a slow-building larder that only grows as the game drags on. Because the first ability is a replacement effect (their nontoken creatures never reach the graveyard at all, but land in exile under an ice counter instead), it attacks two resources at once: it denies them their own reanimation and creature-recursion targets, since the bodies never touch the yard, and it simultaneously hands you a stockpile of spells to cast. The clause that makes the whole thing work outside mono-black is the snow-mana-as-any-color permission: normally a stolen green or white bomb sits uncastable behind a color barrier, but here your snow sources pay for whatever those cards demand, so an opponent's payoffs become yours to deploy off untapped snow lands. What holds the whole thing in check is the narrowness of the replacement itself. It applies only to nontoken creatures, and only when one would actually die, so decks that bounce, blink, exile their own bodies, or simply refuse to trade sidestep it entirely, and even a full exile pile is inert until you spend real mana casting what you have accrued. Left running across a grinding game, though, it inverts attrition: every board wipe and chump block your opponent survives quietly funds the pile that eventually buries them.

Draugr Necromancer (khm)
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Pricing
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Oracle Text

Rules text

If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile that card with an ice counter on it instead. You may cast spells from among cards in exile your opponents own with ice counters on them, and you may spend mana from snow sources as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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