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Living Conundrum

Creature — Elemental4 generic manaBlue mana

A card that flips your own mill clock into a wincon. The default body is a 2/5 hexproof wall, defensive and slow, a creature that survives combat rather than ends it. The transformation clause is the whole game plan: empty your library and the wall becomes a 10/10 flier with vigilance that opponents can't target, a clock that swings and blocks in the same turn. The design tension is deliberate. Milling yourself to zero is normally a countdown to decking out, but this creature offers an escape hatch and a payoff in one shell: the middle line skips the fatal draw, so the same self-mill that would kill you instead arms the finisher. Hexproof means the flip is durable against spot removal once you commit, forcing opponents onto sweepers or blockers rather than a clean one-for-one answer. The awkwardness is baked in: getting a library to zero without losing to your own draw step is a real deckbuilding cost, and until you clear the last card the body is doing nothing but stalling. It rewards a build committed to self-mill as a resource rather than an accident, and it punishes anyone who plays it as a fair blue midrange creature.

Living Conundrum (mkm)
MKM · #63uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

Hexproof If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, skip that draw instead. As long as there are no cards in your library, this creature has base power and toughness 10/10 and has flying and vigilance.
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
N/A
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