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Nim Shrieker

Creature — Zombie3 generic manaBlack mana

An evasive payoff built on the cleanest version of the affinity-era idea that your artifact count could be a creature's power. The 0/1 base is deliberate: this thing is nothing on an empty table, a flyer with nowhere worth going until the artifacts pile up. The conversion rate is what sells it, since every artifact you control adds a full point of power and none of it touches toughness, so the card scales as a glass cannon that hits hard through the air while staying trivially easy to kill in combat or trade off to a single ping. It rewards going wide on cheap artifacts rather than deep on expensive ones: ten one-mana trinkets make it a 10/1, which is the whole appeal and the whole liability in one line. Crucially, artifact lands count too, so the affinity-era manabase that turned lands into artifacts also feeds this body directly, blurring the usual line between your mana and your stats. The block's other count-the-permanents creatures (Frogmite, Myr Enforcer) wanted artifact density to cut their cost; this wants the density to be its body. A 0/1 flyer that turns a board of artifacts into an evasive clock is a tidy expression of how thoroughly that era let artifacts stand in for raw power.

Nim Shrieker (mrd)
MRD · #73common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Legalities

Format Status

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