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Nantuko Blightcutter

Creature — Insect Druid2 generic manaGreen mana

A hate-bear sharpened to a single matchup, and one that scales off the very thing it punishes. The protection from black handles the obvious half: black removal cannot target it, black creatures cannot block it, and it ignores black's pump and combat tricks. But protection has a famous gap, and this card lives inside it: sacrifice effects like Chainer's Edict order the player to sacrifice, not the creature to die, so a black deck with edicts can still strip it from the board. The threshold bonus is what makes the cruelty pointed. Once seven cards fill your graveyard, the body grows by the number of black permanents your opponents control, which means the deeper they commit to their color, the larger this gets: a green creature feeding on a black opponent's own commitment, turning their board into its stat line. The druid pruning rot from the forest reads cleanly off the mechanics. The cost of all this focus is honesty. Outside an opponent flooding the board with black permanents and a graveyard already past threshold, the 2/2 stands inert, a narrow answer that asks two conditions to align before it does anything at all. When both hold, it is a wall and a clock at once, untouchable by half their answers and swelling off the other half, with only the edict left as a clean way through.

Nantuko Blightcutter (tor)
TOR · #131rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.39
Foil: $6.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

Protection from black Threshold — This creature gets +1/+1 for each black permanent your opponents control as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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