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Nucklavee

Creature — Beast4 generic manaBlue or Red manaBlue or Red mana

Two enters triggers, deliberately mismatched: one wants a red sorcery, the other a blue instant, and together they hand you back two cards plus a body that is the least relevant thing on the card. That split is the design's whole personality. Most graveyard-recursion creatures of this stripe return a single card type and let you pick freely; here the two retrievals are pinned to specific colors and specific speeds, so the engine only fires for a deck that already runs cheap red removal sorceries and blue counter-or-cantrip instants. Build along any other axis and one trigger fizzles or both whiff, leaving a 4/4 for six. Build along exactly that axis and it is a clean three-for-one that rebuys the two halves of an Izzet spells-matter plan. The flexible color requirement is a quiet hedge against how brittle a two-color graveyard deck tends to be: a list can skew heavily toward one side and still afford to cast it, even though the payoff rewards running both. It belongs to a small line of Beasts whose stat line is camouflage, asking to be evaluated by what it returns rather than what it can attack into, and the asymmetry between sorcery-speed red and instant-speed blue is the constraint that keeps the recursion from being free value in any deck that happens to play spells.

Nucklavee (eve)
EVE · #110uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $1.02
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may return target red sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. When this creature enters, you may return target blue instant card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
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

Other printings

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