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Hell Mongrel

Creature — Nightmare Dog3 generic manaBlack mana

A discard cost and a discard-triggered escape hatch, sold together: the 4/3 body pumps itself by pitching cards, and pitching this very card is how you land it from exile at a discount rather than paying full price out of hand. Both functions run through the same resource. Any effect that asks you to empty your grip becomes a way to drop this cheaply onto the battlefield and, once it has stuck, feed its own growth, while the cards you shed are usually ones you were happy to see in the yard anyway. It descends from a long line of red-black hellbent and reanimator-adjacent creatures where the discard clause reads as a payoff dressed up as a cost. The catch is that the pump is not free: every activation spends a whole card for one point in each direction, so the ability suits a deck already stocked with dead or recursive cards and quietly bleeds one trying to hold a full grip. Draw it with nothing left to pitch and it is simply a 4/3, which is the honest floor of most beatdown-slanted madness bodies: the reward tracks how badly the rest of the deck wanted to be discarding to begin with.

Hell Mongrel (mh2)
MH2 · #88common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

Discard a card: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Madness 2 generic manaBlack mana (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
N/A
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