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Dreadwing Scavenger

Creature — Nightmare Bird1 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana

Looting-on-attack has quietly become one of the sturdier engines in blue-black, and this is a clean expression of it: a flying body that turns every combat into card selection while feeding the very yard it wants full. The two triggers work as a pair, not a redundancy. The enters trigger stocks the graveyard immediately, smoothing your draws and pitching whatever you would rather have as a resource than a card in hand; the attacks trigger keeps the loop running as long as the bird stays in the air. That repetition is deliberate, because the threshold clause turns a fragile 2/2 into a 3/3 flier with deathtouch once seven cards pile up, and the loot triggers are actively pushing you toward that count. Deathtouch on an evasive body is the real payoff: it makes blocking or attacking into it a losing proposition, so the flip changes the card's job from durdling value piece to genuine board control. The tension is that it wants a graveyard full of cards you were happy to discard, so it prefers a bin you actually use rather than one you merely fill. Threshold is a static state, not a resource you accumulate: it switches on and off with your graveyard count, so a well-timed self-mill or a fetched card can flip the buff at instant speed, and a graveyard-hate spell can flip it right back off.

Dreadwing Scavenger (fdn)
FDN · #118uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, draw a card, then discard a card. Threshold — This creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

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