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Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur // Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur

Genesis Ultimatum on a body, dropped into colorless so any green ramp deck can run it: the enters trigger digs down each library until it hits the first nonland card, yours included, then lets you cast the lot for free. The "until they exile a nonland card" clause is what solves the whiff problem that plagues cascade-style top-of-library effects: you cannot spin into a dead pile of lands, because the dig only stops on something castable. More players at the table means a fatter free pile, and the trigger alone earns the seven mana. The back half is where the design turns lethal. Paying nine and a Phyrexian-green pip flips Etali into an indestructible trampler that converts combat damage straight into poison counters at a one-to-one rate; a clean hit from the 7/7 leaves an opponent at seven poison, three short of the loss condition, and any power boost closes that gap on the next connection. The two faces are not variations on a theme; they are a value engine and a kill condition stapled together, and the transform cost is steep enough that you rarely bank both in one turn. What ties them is inevitability: cast it and you are ahead on cards, leave it on the board and it ends the game by a poison clock most decks are not built to race. The line of enters-trigger Elder Dinosaurs began with the original Etali; this one gave the name a second gear.

Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (pmom)
PMOM · #137srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. 9 generic manaGreen or Phyrexian mana: Transform Etali. Activate only as a sorcery. // Trample, indestructible Whenever Etali deals combat damage to a player, they get that many poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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