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Moodmark Painter

Creature — Human Shaman2 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Undergrowth wanted to reward a graveyard you filled by attrition, and most of the cycle paid out in counters or small static boosts. This one weaponizes the pile directly: it turns a stocked yard into a single unblockable-by-one swing, scaling the buff to whatever creatures have already died. The menace is what completes the package; a +X/+0 pump means nothing if the defender simply chumps it, so the keyword forces a two-blocker tax that a thin board often cannot pay. That combination points the card at a very specific job: the finishing push once resources have been traded down, the graveyard is deep, and the opponent's board is light. The 2/3 frame is incidental, present mainly to carry the arrival trigger and survive a swing back. The wrinkle worth noting is that the buff can target any creature, including one with evasion or an existing threat, so the painter is less a beater than a one-shot enabler bolted onto a fragile body. It belongs to the strain of black aggro that treats the graveyard as a second hand of resources rather than fuel for recursion, converting dead bodies into a closing-speed multiplier rather than card advantage.

Moodmark Painter (grn)
GRN · #78common
Pricing
Normal: $0.04
Foil: $0.11
Oracle Text

Rules text

Undergrowth — When this creature enters, target creature gains menace and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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