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Horrid Shadowspinner

Creature — Horror1 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana

Looting has always been a sorcery-speed ritual glued to instants or cheap creatures, which meant the card selection came at the cost of your turn or a slot on your board. This body folds the loot into an attack trigger, so the filtering happens as a rider on an attack you were already committing to. The count scales with power rather than sitting at a fixed one-for-one, and the lifelink nudges the math in an aggressive direction: attacking already gains you life, and now it also cycles through your deck and stocks your graveyard. That last part is the axis that matters. The trigger draws and discards the same number of cards, so it is not raw card advantage: it is selection, trading away what you draw for the graveyard resources you actually want. That symmetry is the balancing act. You dig on your own terms, but you have to be willing to pitch exactly as many cards as you draw, so the effect rewards decks that treat the graveyard as a second hand rather than a cost. An attack-triggered loot engine turns a two-power evasionless creature into a repeatable feeder for reanimator and delirium shells, where the discarded cards are the payoff rather than the loss. It is a loot engine that asks to be attacked with, which quietly changes what kind of creature carries a graveyard deck's card flow.

Horrid Shadowspinner (mh3)
MH3 · #188uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.32
Oracle Text

Rules text

Lifelink Whenever this creature attacks, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard that many cards.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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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