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Fathom Fleet Cutthroat

Creature — Human Pirate3 generic manaBlack mana

Removal stapled to a body, but with a precondition that turns it from a spell into a puzzle: the target has to have already taken damage this turn. That clause is the whole personality. Unconditional creature removal at this rate would be a slam-dunk; gating it behind prior damage makes this a finisher for a board state you have already started winning, not a way to break serve from behind. Because it lacks flash, the enabling has to happen on your own turn or on the way in: attack with a small creature, have it get blocked, and the blocker takes damage in the exchange; then follow with this post-combat to erase whatever survived. Any incidental ping effect works too, which means the reward goes to a deck already built to nibble at toughness rather than one hunting for a clean answer in a vacuum. There is a subtle wrinkle in how the trigger reads: the damage and the destruction do not have to come from the same source, so a fatty scratched for a single point and then hit by this is gone regardless of its printed toughness, sidestepping the durability that usually shields big bodies from cheap removal. The 3/3 still pays its way when the trigger fizzles, the concession that keeps the conditional from being a dead card. Bodies-with-strings removal like this tunes the restriction to make you build the value first, then collect it.

Fathom Fleet Cutthroat (xln)
XLN · #107common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

1 set
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