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Korozda Monitor

Creature — Lizard2 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Scavenge was a mechanic built to give a creature a second life as a counter battery, and this is the trample-bearing example of the design. The math is the point: scavenge converts the body's power into +1/+1 counters, so a 3/3 here transplants three counters onto a chosen target. The counters are the only thing that carries over; trample stays with the corpse, not the recipient, so the second use is purely a stat transfer onto whatever already wants to push through. The seven-mana exile cost (5 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana) is what frames this as a late-game mana sink rather than a tempo play: you pay full freight for the first beater, then pay again, at sorcery speed and after the body has had its turn of work, to recycle that power into a fresh threat. The rate is deliberately steep (seven mana for three counters), which keeps scavenge from being a free value engine and recasts it as graveyard insurance: a creature you have already spent your mana on that refuses to be a dead draw once it dies. Plain green design, doing what green counter-and-trample strategies have always asked of their middle of the curve, with a recursion clause stapled on so the card keeps contributing after combat has chewed it up.

Korozda Monitor (rtr)
RTR · #129common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.03
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Scavenge 5 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana (5 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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