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Evil Eye of Urborg

Creature — Eye4 generic manaBlack mana

The drawback is the whole conceit: a 6/3 body big enough to threaten a real chunk of life total, leashed to a creature type almost nothing else shares. Field this and your other creatures are pinned to the ground; the Eye stares forward alone, and anything that steps in front of it dies before damage. That second clause is what turns the stat line into a riddle. A 6/3 trades down to almost anything in a straight block, so opponents would happily chump it to death, except chumping just feeds a creature to the destroy trigger and lets the six through next turn. The defender is caught between taking six and handing over a blocker, the kind of forced-bad-decision design that the unblockable-style finishers of the era kept circling. What you give up in return is teamwork: building toward the Eye means accepting that your board stops attacking the moment it lands, so the card wants to be the plan rather than a piece of one. It is a deliberately lonely threat, a beater that punishes interaction with it specifically while taxing you for the privilege of running it. The Eye creature type is the joke and the lock at once: a tribe of one, by design, so the attack restriction reads as nearly total unless you go out of your way to assemble more eyes.

Evil Eye of Urborg (tsp)
TSP · #107uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $4.59
Oracle Text

Rules text

Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack. Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature.
Legalities

Format Status

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