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Mutalith Vortex Beast

Creature — Mutant Beast4 generic manaBlue manaRed mana

A gamble printed onto a body, with the odds scaling to the table. The coin flip is the load-bearing mechanic here: it runs once per opponent when the beast lands, and each flip is a self-contained bet where winning draws you a card and losing throws three damage at the player you flipped for. The upside and the downside both point at the same opponents, which is the design cleverness. A pod full of enemies means more cards to draw and more faces to burn, so the same trigger reads as pure advantage when the flips break your way and as a Grip of Chaos-flavored table-slap when they do not. Nobody at the table is safe from the payoff, and neither are you from the disappointment, since a bad run of flips leaves a six-mana 6/6 trampler that drew you nothing and merely poked a few people. That variance is the whole character of the card: it is not a value engine you can build around so much as a randomizer wearing a threat's clothes. The Warhammer chaos flavor is doing real work in the mechanic, not just the art; the ability is deliberately anti-planning, rewarding a player who is happy to hand the outcome to fate rather than one trying to sequence toward a guaranteed line.

Mutalith Vortex Beast (40k)
40K · #134★rare
Pricing
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Foil: $2.04
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Warp Vortex — When this creature enters, flip a coin for each opponent you have. For each flip you win, draw a card. For each flip you lose, this creature deals 3 damage to that player.
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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