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Ogre Slumlord

Creature — Ogre Rogue3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

A death-trigger engine that conscripts the battlefield around it as fuel. The 3/3 body is forgettable, but the two abilities compound into something the rate does not advertise: whenever another nontoken creature dies, yours or your opponent's, you can mint a Rat, and the second clause hands every Rat you control deathtouch. That clause is what turns a value piece into a board-state lock. A field of 1/1 deathtouch tokens makes attacking suicidal and trading lopsided, so the engine producing the army also walls the army off. Pair it with any sacrifice outlet and the loop turns explicit: feed a nontoken creature to the outlet, get a Rat, repeat, each one a deathtouch blocker. The Ogre wants a deck already built to ship creatures to the graveyard; it does not demand new behavior, only a pipeline to plug into. The word "nontoken" is the balancing clause that stops it from spiraling on its own: the Rats it makes cannot feed it, and neither can the Ogre's own death, so real creatures have to keep dying for the engine to keep turning. That single restriction is the line between a grindy aristocrats payoff and a free combo enabler. It plays slow, then snowballs: a quiet five-drop that owns the next several turns once the bodies start dropping around it.

Ogre Slumlord (jmp)
JMP · #260rare
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Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token. Rats you control have deathtouch.
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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