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Hazy Homunculus

Creature — Homunculus Illusion1 generic manaBlue mana

The evasion clause runs backwards from the usual stipulation. Most unblockable creatures of this era asked the attacker to do something (pay mana, sacrifice a permanent, hold a color of land); this one keys off the defender's posture instead, and that flips the strategic burden onto the other side of the table. To stop a single 1/1 from connecting, the defending player has to tap out every land before combat, which means walking into your turn with no mana up for instants, no removal held, no combat trick available. The body is irrelevant; the threat is the tax. It belongs to the small family of Prophecy designs built around mana-state asymmetries, the set that also produced the "as long as you control no untapped lands" rhebok-and-rhino cycle, exploring what happens when a card rewards or punishes a player for sitting on open mana. The friction here is that the homunculus only earns its keep against an opponent who wants to play reactively, and it does nothing on its own to close a game faster than a 1/1 closes anything. The interesting part is the inversion itself: a creature whose evasion is purely a function of how the other player chooses to sequence their lands, turning a normally invisible decision (do I leave mana open?) into a combat consequence.

Hazy Homunculus (pcy)
PCY · #36common
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.75
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an untapped land.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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