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Gloomshrieker

Enchantment Creature — Cat Beast1 generic manaBlack manaGreen mana

Regrowth on a body has been printed before, but the exile clause rewrites what that body is for. When it enters, it hands back any permanent card from your graveyard, from a bomb to a fetched land to another value creature. The catch sits in the third line: because it exiles itself when it would die, it never rejoins the yard it just dipped into. That reverses how black-green usually wants its creatures to behave. Most Golgari value pieces are built to loop through the graveyard indefinitely; this one starts an engine on the way in and then quietly removes itself from the recursion loop, so any reanimation plan around it has to treat its return-a-permanent trigger as a one-time start rather than a renewable resource. The exile clause is the tax that pays for the flexibility of returning anything. Menace on the 2/1 gives the card a second dimension it gets for free: you keep the card-advantage trigger from entering and still have a body that pressures the board, since a 2/1 with menace demands two creatures to block it. The design lives in that tension: a graveyard enchantment creature that pulls a card back while refusing to become fuel itself, forcing the deck around it to count on exactly one loop rather than a permanent it can grind back over and over.

Gloomshrieker (neo)
NEO · #219uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If this creature would die, exile it instead.
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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