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Eddymurk Crab

Creature — Elemental Crab5 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The seven-mana printed cost is a fiction you're never meant to pay. This is a cost-reduction payoff dressed as a fatty: every instant and sorcery in your graveyard shaves a generic off the tab, so in a deck that has been trading cheap spells all game it lands as a 5/5 flash body for a couple of mana, sometimes less. The design leans on your bin rather than your hand: nothing needs to be held or resolved first, and a discipline of cheap interaction fills the graveyard as a byproduct of playing the game. The enters-tapped clause draws the honest line around the flash. On anyone else's turn it comes down tapped, so it cannot ambush as a surprise blocker and cannot swing back until the following turn; even on your own turn it has summoning sickness and won't attack until you untap. The body is a threat for later; the immediate value is the entry trigger. Flashed in during your opponent's beginning-of-combat step, before attackers are declared, its tap on two would-be attackers functions as a two-body pseudo-Fog; cast on your own turn ahead of an alpha strike, it clears two blockers for the rest of your board. That tap is instant-speed tempo bolted onto a body a control or tempo shell was already going to cast for a song.

Eddymurk Crab (blb)
BLB · #48uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $1.11
Foil: $1.22
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash This spell costs 1 generic mana less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. This creature enters tapped if it's not your turn. When this creature enters, tap up to two target creatures.
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
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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