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Moxonomy

Myrkul, Lord of Bones

Legendary Creature — God4 generic manaWhite manaBlack manaGreen mana

Death conversion is old ground for Abzan colors, but most engines that reanimate or copy your fallen creatures leave the copies vulnerable to the same removal that killed the originals. The second ability sidesteps that entirely: exile the dying creature and rebuild it as an enchantment copy that has shed every other card type. The copy keeps the printed abilities and any static or triggered text, but it is no longer a creature, so it dodges creature removal, board wipes that hit creatures, and any check that cares about creature types. A value engine like Solemn Simulacrum or Ravenous Chupacabra becomes a permanent fixture that most decks are simply not built to answer. That transformation is the design's real hook: it converts creature-based value into a format most interaction cannot touch. The indestructibility clause is a separate, defensive gear. It rewards paying life or building low, turning the drain and sacrifice that already feed the exile trigger into insurance for the God itself. The tension the design resolves is that a 7/5 body wants to be a beater, but the abilities want you underwater and sacrificing; running the life total down toward half turns on the indestructibility while your dying creatures keep feeding the exile engine. It is a mono-purpose engine dressed as a beatstick, and the more your creatures die on your terms, the further ahead it pulls.

Myrkul, Lord of Bones (pclb)
PCLB · #287srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Myrkul has indestructible. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's an enchantment and loses all other card types.
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
Printings elsewhere

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