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Leering Onlooker

Creature — Vampire1 generic manaBlack mana

The 1/3 flier that would rather die than block. Its body is built for defense, but the real payoff waits in the graveyard: a delayed engine that spends four mana to turn a dead card into two evasive bodies, then exiles itself so the effect never repeats. That structure makes it a two-for-one on a slow clock. It trades or chumps early, then, several turns later once the mana is free, converts its own corpse into a pair of tapped Bats that swing the following turn. The tap and the exile clause are the two brakes on that design: the tokens cannot block or attack the turn they arrive, and the activation is strictly one-shot, so the card demands patience rather than repetition. It suits builds that keep their graveyard stocked with fuel and can afford to sit on a costly activation until the board stalls. This is a familiar shape for black: a cheap creature that keeps generating pressure after it dies, in the lineage of Bloodghast-style recursion and Gravecrawler value, though here the resurrection produces fresh bodies rather than returning the original. The Bat flavor is quiet, but the tokens do give a wide-flyer plan a small extra push.

Leering Onlooker (mkm)
MKM · #91uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying 2 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create two tapped 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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