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Kindly Stranger // Demon-Possessed Witch

Creature — Human // Creature — Human Shaman

A 2/3 for three that asks nothing of you except patience while the graveyard fills. The delirium activation is the payoff for bookkeeping a grindy black deck was already doing: self-mill, fetches, cheap spells, the incidental death of creatures and lands, all counting toward the threshold of card-type diversity that switches the flip online. The design is doing two things at cross-purposes on purpose. It rewards the deck that earned its graveyard by handing it removal stapled to a body, and it strands the deck that splashed black for a midrange beater without doing the work. What shapes the tension is that the kill rides a one-time transform trigger, not a repeatable ability, but the transform itself is an activated ability with no timing restriction: once delirium is live and the 2 generic manaBlack mana is available, you can hold Kindly Stranger back and flip it at instant speed on the opponent's turn, leaving the threat of a removal spell hanging over any creature they commit to the board. Cashing it destroys one thing and spends the front side's promise for good, so the pressure is real but strictly single-use: a stored spot-removal spell that also happens to be a body, waiting for the moment you decide the target is worth it. Among double-faced creatures that convert a deckbuilding constraint into a combat unlock, this one sits on the value side rather than the bomb side, a clean way to turn accumulated attrition into a tempo swing when a grinding deck wants one.

Kindly Stranger // Demon-Possessed Witch (soi)
SOI · #119uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Delirium — 2 generic manaBlack mana: Transform this creature. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. // When this creature transforms into Demon-Possessed Witch, you may destroy target creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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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