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Kithkin Mourncaller

Creature — Kithkin Scout2 generic manaGreen mana

The trick to reading this Scout's ability is to notice what it rewards: not death, but death in combat, on the attack. The clause is narrow on two axes, creature type and zone-plus-state, and the second is the interesting one. You do not draw because a Kithkin or Elf dies; you draw because one that was attacking dies. That sits the card squarely on the same strategic axis as the chump-attack: send a small tribal body into a profitable trade or a brick wall, and the loss converts into a card. It turns the act of throwing creatures at a board into an engine rather than a concession, the go-wide, low-curve aggression that token-and-tribe decks are built to do. The body itself is replacement-level; it exists to keep the trigger online while the named tribes do the dying. The design tension is real: the ability wants you to attack into bad math, but only on the specific creatures it cares about, so it nudges deckbuilding toward a critical mass of those two tribes rather than rewarding a generic sacrifice shell. It pays you for combat losses you were going to take anyway, provided you built the board to take them with the right names on it.

Kithkin Mourncaller (lrw)
LRW · #224uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.33
Foil: $0.86
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever an attacking Kithkin or Elf is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may draw a card.
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
Legal
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