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Fell Stinger

Creature — Zombie Scorpion2 generic manaBlack mana

Exploit front-loads the aristocrat payoff to the exact moment a creature dies rather than to some later upkeep tick, but it does not skip the stack: sacrificing a body triggers a reflexive ability ("when this creature exploits a creature") that resolves in its own right, drawing a target player two cards and costing them two life. The reward is indifferent to what the sacrificed creature was contributing, so it happily consumes spent tokens, worn-out mana dorks, or any small body whose usefulness is behind it. Because the trigger names one target player who takes both halves together, this is no group-hug engine splitting draw from drain; the cards and the life travel as a package, and while aiming them across the table is technically legal, the intended read is that you draw and pay. Deathtouch on the 3/2 matters most in the stretch before you have anything worth feeding it, threatening a favorable combat trade. And since exploit lets a creature sacrifice itself, an empty board is no dead end: with nothing else to eat, it devours its own body to function as a draw-two-lose-two, keeping it live from an empty hand. The optionality runs both directions, letting you decline the sacrifice and simply deploy a deathtouch blocker when the fodder is worth more alive. Among black's crowded field of sacrifice-for-value engines, that early arrival of the payoff is what sets its clock apart.

Fell Stinger (prm)
PRM · #95323uncommon
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Normal: $0.21
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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