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Fungal Behemoth

Creature — Fungus3 generic manaGreen mana

The trick here is that suspend isn't a delay; it's the engine. Most suspend cards count down to a single payoff, eating early turns for a discount later. This one converts every tick of the clock into a +1/+1 counter on a creature you already control, which is the same resource it reads its own size from. So the wait pays you twice: each upkeep you stack a counter somewhere on the board, and each counter quietly grows the Behemoth waiting in exile to match. By the time the last time counter falls and it arrives with haste, the board has been swelling for as many turns as you paid for, and the creature lands at a size proportional to the work the suspend already did. The Fungus typing nods at the saproling-and-counter lineage green has always cultivated, but the design idea is sharper than a tribal payoff: it folds the cost of suspend (lost tempo) into a counters subtheme so the downtime is never dead. The catch is fragility on both ends. The body reads as zero whenever your counters are gone, and the counters live on whichever creatures you targeted rather than the Behemoth itself, so a single sweeper undoes turns of accumulation at once. It rewards a board you were already going wide on, and punishes you for leaning on the Behemoth as your only threat.

Fungal Behemoth (plc)
PLC · #128rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.63
Foil: $3.67
Oracle Text

Rules text

Fungal Behemoth's power and toughness are each equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on creatures you control. Suspend X—X generic manaGreen manaGreen mana. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay X generic manaGreen manaGreen mana and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.) Whenever a time counter is removed from this card while it's exiled, you may put a +1/+1 counter on target 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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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