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Invader Parasite

Creature — Phyrexian Insect3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Most land hate destroys; this exiles, and then keeps charging the toll. The Imprint clause turns a single targeted land into a name-based tax that punishes an opponent every time they replay a land sharing that name. Aim it at a basic and the math turns vicious: exile a Mountain against a heavy-red mana base and every fresh Mountain off the top is two damage to the controller, a Howling Mine of pain running in reverse. The design exploits a quirk most removal ignores, that lands are fungible by name, so the punishment scales with how committed the opponent is to a color rather than with any single permanent. The friction sits in the body and the targeting: a 3/2 for five dies to nearly everything, and the trigger only fires on lands entering, so a player who already has their mana out and stops drawing fresh copies pays nothing. It reads less like a removal spell than a clock that the opponent winds for you, ticking only as fast as they need to keep developing. That makes it sharpest against the manabases least able to diversify, and toothless against the ones that can. A nasty, conditional little Phyrexian: the kind of card that does very little or quietly ends a game, depending entirely on what the other deck is built on.

Invader Parasite (nph)
NPH · #87rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.64
Oracle Text

Rules text

Imprint — When this creature enters, exile target land. Whenever a land an opponent controls with the same name as the exiled card enters, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.
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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