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Gibbering Fiend

Creature — Devil1 generic manaRed mana

Devils are red's reach-on-a-stick tribe, throwing damage on the way in or the way out, and this one extends the idea by making the reach recur rather than fire once. The enter-the-battlefield ping is unconditional, a guaranteed point of incidental damage the turn the body lands, the kind of nudge that closes out a race a turn early. The delirium upkeep trigger is what changes the card's job entirely: it converts a small body into a recurring drain that ticks down opposing life while you do nothing, attack with nothing, and risk nothing in combat. The catch is delirium's gate, which demands a graveyard stocked with enough different kinds of cards to turn the ability on. That gating is the bargain: a 2/1 that pings on arrival would be forgettable, but one that keeps pinging without ever needing to swing is doing the work an enchantment usually does, sitting on a body that can still apply pressure on the ground. The deckbuilding cost is that you have to feed the yard, so the reward naturally lands in a base that spills instants, sorceries, creatures, and the odd destroyed artifact or land into the graveyard. The reach is repeatable rather than one-shot; the price is that you have to build a graveyard worth turning on.

Gibbering Fiend (soi)
SOI · #161uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.52
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to each opponent. Delirium — At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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