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Luminollusk

Creature — Elemental3 generic manaGreen mana

The Vivid ability word ties this creature's payoff to a deckbuilding statistic green rarely bothers to maximize: how many colors are represented across your board when it enters. A mono-green board gains one life; a table full of gold permanents and colored artifacts turns the same trigger into a real cushion. That makes the lifegain a reward for spread, not for casting, and it sits in tension with green's usual instinct to stay disciplined on color. The deathtouch body is the honest part of the package: a 2/4 with deathtouch trades up against almost anything on the ground and holds a flank without asking for support, so it does useful work even when the color count is low. What the design is doing is stapling a color-count meter onto a defensive creature and letting the two halves scale on different axes. The floor is a competent blocker; the ceiling only arrives if you have already built wide across the color pie, so its best home is a deck that was already splashing rather than one bending its manabase to accommodate the trigger. It is a rate that pays off a decision you made in the manabase long before this ever hit the battlefield.

Luminollusk (ecl)
ECL · #179uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.11
Oracle Text

Rules text

Deathtouch Vivid — When this creature enters, you gain life equal to the number of colors among permanents you control.
Legalities

Format Status

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