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Lictor

Creature — Tyranid3 generic manaGreen mana

The design question here is how to reward reactive green play without handing green a hard answer it does not deserve. Pheromone Trail resolves that by keying off the opponent's tempo rather than your own: the token only appears when someone else has committed a creature to the board that turn, turning their aggression into your doubled body. Flash is the piece that arms it. Held up on the opponent's turn, a flashed-in body plus a 3/3 trampler for four mana is a genuine ambush, punishing a curve-out or an end-step commitment with an instant-speed swing in the creature count. Left to a main-phase cast into an empty board, it is a plain 3/3 with no upside, and that gap between the two casts is the entire skill test the card poses. It is a green creature that behaves like a trap, asking you to read the turn before you spend the mana. The Tyranid Warrior token echoes the flavor of the Lictor as a scout marking prey for the swarm, but mechanically the trigger is a clean lesson in conditional value: no counter magic, no removal, just a reward gated behind correctly guessing when the opponent will overextend. Whether it is a two-for-one or a vanilla Hill Giant depends entirely on timing, which is a more interesting place to put a common-tier body than most reactive green creatures manage.

Lictor (40k)
40K · #94★rare
Pricing
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Foil: $0.55
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash Pheromone Trail — When this creature enters, if a creature entered the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, create a 3/3 green Tyranid Warrior creature token with trample.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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