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Morkrut Necropod

Creature — Slug Horror5 generic manaBlack mana

A 7/7 with menace for six is a rate any black deck would take in a vacuum; the catch is that this slug eats your board to swing. The attack-or-block trigger is mandatory, so every combat step it participates in costs you a permanent, and the choice of what to feed it (another creature or a land) is yours. That freedom is exactly what makes the card a liability left unattended: with no expendable bodies around, it happily starts strip-mining your own mana base to keep swinging. The design idea here is the self-sacrifice drawback as a deckbuilding prompt rather than a downside to endure. Feed it tokens, feed it creatures that want to die, feed it permanents with leave-the-battlefield triggers, and the mandatory sacrifice flips from tax to engine. Left alone, it is a beater that slowly disassembles its controller's position. Surrounded by the right fodder, it is a recurring sacrifice outlet that also happens to punch for seven and demand two blockers. Because the trigger fires on blocking too, it cannot sit back as a passive wall without paying the same toll: there is no free defensive anchor here, only a body that taxes you in every combat it enters. It belongs to the lineage of huge-body-real-cost black fatties that ask you to build around the leash instead of pretending it isn't there.

Morkrut Necropod (j25)
J25 · #466uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice another creature or land.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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