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Kraken of the Straits

Creature — Kraken5 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The evasion runs on an axis nearly nothing else uses: your own Island count, checked against the power of any creature that wants to block. Each Island you add raises the bar a would-be blocker must clear to legally stand in front of the 6/6, so a manabase leaning on a stack of basic Islands shrinks the pool of legal defenders down to whatever hits hardest. Count six or seven Islands and most defensive bodies simply cannot interpose, leaving only the genuinely large to trade. That ties the threat level to a deckbuilding commitment rather than a mana payment, which is the wrinkle worth dwelling on: a heavy-Islands build pushes it toward unblockable, while a two-color manabase full of nonbasics declaws it back into an ordinary, chumpable beater. The comparison is a live one, though, not a one-sided count. The restriction reads both numbers at once, so it moves whenever the opponent's board does: a creature that grows past your Island threshold becomes a legal blocker again, an anthem or a pump spell can re-open a lane you thought was closed, and a big body simply walks in the door your Islands cannot shut. The payoff here is gated not by sacrifice, not by an upkeep tax, but by how purely you were willing to commit to a single basic land type, and that one constraint is doing all the work a conventional evasion keyword would have handed over flat.

Kraken of the Straits (bng)
BNG · #42uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $1.70
Oracle Text

Rules text

Creatures with power less than the number of Islands you control can't block this creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
N/A
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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