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Gilded Scuttler

Artifact Creature — Crab2 generic manaBlue mana

Two jobs that usually demand separate cards ride the same evasive body: permanent unblockable connection and a tempo tax that lands the instant the crab resolves. That arrival trigger fires independent of combat, tapping an opponent's creature and pinning it with a stun counter, so whatever you target sits out its next untap step and misses a full turn without ever dying. It is soft removal dressed as a value effect. Because the disruption keys off entering the battlefield rather than being cast, it is portable: blink or reanimation buys a second tap-and-stun off the same body every time it returns. The catch runs the other way too, since a creature that never resolves never enters, so a counterspell aimed at the crab erases the stun along with it. Where the disruption is a one-time arrival, the unblockable clause is the ongoing promise: the body threatens nobody in a fight but cannot be kept from connecting, so it keeps chipping in a point at a time long after the tax has done its work. Trading combat relevance for a guaranteed, unconditional stun is the whole bargain: no attack requirement, no survival requirement, just a permanent that arrives, taxes, and then nibbles. The artifact type is a quiet bonus, opening lines a plain blue creature would not have. Workmanlike rather than a bomb, but a clean packaging of a role that usually forces a choice between the evasive attacker and the disruptive spell.

Gilded Scuttler (j25)
J25 · #7common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked. When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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