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Elusive Krasis

Creature — Fish Mutant1 generic manaGreen manaBlue mana

Unblockable plus a counter engine is a deceptively complete clock built into one card. The 0/4 body looks defensive, but it functions as a placeholder: a chassis that deals no damage on arrival and grows every time you commit a bigger creature to the board. Because the +1/+1 counters land on a creature that cannot be blocked, each Evolve trigger translates directly into unanswered combat damage, sidestepping the usual problem with go-wide aggression where a single chump blocker stalls a turn. The design tension is in what powers it: Evolve only triggers on greater power or toughness, so the engine rewards a curve that climbs rather than a flat board of equals. Drop a 3/3, the Krasis grows; drop another 0/4 and nothing happens. That constraint keeps it from being a free snowball, nudging the deckbuilder toward escalating threats rather than redundant bodies. The result is a creature that asks almost nothing of your mana to deploy and quietly converts the rest of your development into a damage source. It captures the Simic instinct to turn incremental growth into a win condition: not a bomb that ends the game by itself, but a tax-free outlet that takes the creatures you were already playing and points them at the opponent as a clock combat has no clean way to interact with.

Elusive Krasis (gk2)
GK2 · #116uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked. Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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