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Nezumi Bladeblesser

Creature — Rat Samurai2 generic manaBlack mana

A conditional keyword grid dressed up as a beater. The 3/2 body is fixed, but both upgrades key off permanent types a black artifacts-and-enchantments shell already runs for other reasons, which is the point: the value lives in the text, not in the Rat. Deathtouch turns the body into a blocker nobody wants to trade with, and it makes attacking brutal math, since any lone blocker dies to it. Menace narrows the answers further: the creature can't be blocked at all except by two or more, so the opponent must commit a pair or eat the damage. Stack both and the choice gets ugly. Block with two, and deathtouch means three power kills both: assign one lethal point to the first blocker, two to the second, and the pair dies to a three-mana body. That is far more pressure than the rate suggests. The catch is that both keywords are continuous effects contingent on what else you control: lose the artifact and deathtouch evaporates mid-combat, lose the enchantment and menace goes with it, so the threat is only as reliable as the permanents propping it up. It belongs to a long line of black creatures whose stat line is deliberately unremarkable so the conditional text can carry the value, a design that hands the deckbuilder a lever rather than a finished threat.

Nezumi Bladeblesser (neo)
NEO · #318common
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature has deathtouch as long as you control an artifact. This creature has menace as long as you control an enchantment. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Legalities

Format Status

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