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Grozoth

Creature — Leviathan6 generic manaBlue manaBlue manaBlue mana

Most tutors fetch one card; this one empties a shelf. The enters trigger searches for any number of mana-value-nine cards and puts every one it finds into your hand, a deliberate joke that only pays off if you've stacked your deck with nines. The transmute clause is the punchline: discard Grozoth for 1 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana at sorcery speed and tutor up another nine-mana card (often a second Grozoth, or the haymaker you actually want), making the Leviathan both the engine and the fuel that finds the engine. None of this matters unless you go all in. A 9/9 with defender can't profitably attack until you've sunk 4 generic mana into it, so the body is an afterthought; the card is a deckbuilding prompt wearing a creature's clothes. It rewards a particular brewer's masochism: assemble a critical mass of nine-mana payoffs, then use transmute as a cheap dig that converts a dead late-game bomb into your actual plan before you ever pay full price for it. Transmute normally trades a card for a flexible search at its own mana value; here the value tutored is enormous, and resolving the creature refills your grip with every nine-drop you own. Note the catch the trigger hides in plain sight: those nines land in hand, still waiting on the mana to cast them, so the search is a promissory note, not a payoff. It is a parasitic build-around whose ceiling is entirely a function of how committed you are to the bit.

Grozoth (rav)
RAV · #53rare
Pricing
Normal: $3.22
Foil: $7.90
Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, you may search your library for any number of cards that have mana value 9, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. 4 generic mana: This creature loses defender until end of turn. Transmute 1 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana (1 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
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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