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Narcomoeba

Creature — Illusion1 generic manaBlue mana

The trigger keys off the wrong zone, and that is the entire idea. Most creatures want to be cast or, at worst, reanimated from the graveyard; this one fires when it is put there from your library, which makes it self-mill fodder that pays you back: a free flier the instant a library-to-graveyard effect passes it through. That single line of design turned it into the connective tissue of dredge and self-mill engines, where the goal is to fill the graveyard fast and the bodies are an afterthought until they aren't. Three or four of these tumbling out of one big mill turn give you flying chump blockers, sacrifice fodder, or just enough power to convert a graveyard full of spells into a clock. The 1/1 flying body is almost incidental; the card is built never to be hard-cast on curve, only to be milled. Its logic inverts the usual relationship to your deck: the library becomes a resource you spend down rather than draw from, and the creature is most valuable precisely when you grind it past the top into the yard. The cleanest expression of a design that treats your own deck as fuel and rewards you with a board for burning it, it belongs in any shell where the library is the engine and the graveyard is the hand.

Narcomoeba (pgrn)
PGRN · #47srare
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Foil: $1.37
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this card is put into your graveyard from your library, you may put it onto the battlefield.
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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