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Kashi-Tribe Reaver

Creature — Snake Warrior3 generic manaGreen mana

Most green beaters settle their disputes by being bigger. This one settles them by leaving the loser face-down for a turn cycle. When it bites a creature in combat, that creature taps and skips its next untap step, so a blocker (or an attacker it stopped) sits idle through the opponent's following turn and your next swing before it comes back online. The body is only a 3/2, which would make trading into anything larger a death sentence, except the 1 generic manaGreen mana regeneration lets it walk into a fight it would otherwise lose, survive the return blow, and still pin down whatever met it. That pairing is the whole engine: a cheap shield turns a fragile attacker into something that grinds through a stalled ground game, peeling off the opponent's best defender one body at a time without ever needing to kill it. The trigger only fires against creatures, never players, which tells you exactly where this wants to be: in the red zone, locking down the survivor rather than racing for life total. It is a tempo piece wearing the costume of a fatty, an early-era expression of the idea that green pressure could come from denial as much as from size. The Snake Warrior line gives it a tribal address, but the value sits entirely in the body and that lockdown clause: every connection costs the opponent a blocker for a full turn.

Kashi-Tribe Reaver (chk)
CHK · #220uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.59
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. 1 generic manaGreen mana: Regenerate this creature.
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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