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Infested Thrinax

Creature — Lizard3 generic manaBlack manaGreen mana

Flash is the entire reason to reach for this over any static death-payoff, because it lets you choose the exact moment the trigger comes online. The catch the body's clean rate hides is that this is not a permanent aura on the board: the death-payoff is a one-turn window that vanishes at cleanup, even though the 4/4 Lizard sticks around. Drop it on your own turn with nothing dying and you get a body and nothing else. The line that unlocks it is to hold it up and flash it in response to a board wipe, so it resolves before your creatures start hitting the yard and converts the sweeper into a wave of Saprolings. Because the trigger reads each dying creature's power rather than paying a flat number, it rewards a board built tall: a 4/4 that dies pays four tokens, and a wide, beefy aristocrats board turns one sweeper into a green flood. The nontoken clause stops the loop from feeding itself, since the Saprolings it makes cannot pay back in; only your real creatures count when they die. That restriction dictates the shell: a critical mass of expendable nontoken bodies and a reason to want them dead. It lives at the sacrifice-and-recur end of black-green alongside the Grave Pact and Blood Artist payoffs, but where those drain, this builds board presence, and its instant-speed window is what sets it apart from the sorcery-speed engines it shares a deck with.

Infested Thrinax (m3c)
M3C · #126rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash When this creature enters, until end of turn, whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a number of 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens equal to that creature's power.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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