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Phyrexian Bloodstock

Creature — Phyrexian Zombie4 generic manaBlack mana

Color hosing folded into a body rather than a dedicated spell, this belongs to a multicolor-block tradition of creatures that punish a specific enemy color when they die. The trigger is the wrinkle that does the work: it fires on leaving the battlefield, not on entering or on attack, which puts the destruction on your schedule. Chump-block it, sacrifice it, bounce it, even let the opponent kill it, and a white creature dies, can't-be-regenerated and all. That makes the 3/3 awkward for any white creature deck to remove, since the cleanest answers (combat, a kill spell) just cash in the trigger. The "can't be regenerated" rider closes the obvious loophole: it was aimed at the white regenerators of its day, the defenders that would otherwise shrug off a death blow and survive to block again. As asymmetric hate it sits a tier below the era's hand-disruption and enchantment hosers, because it commits a five-mana body to a job that only pays off once. But the leaves-the-battlefield framing is the cleverest part of the build. The usual weakness of a hoser is that the opponent decides whether to engage it; here every route off the battlefield passes through the same target, so the destruction stops being a choice the opponent gets to make and becomes a tax on removing the creature at all.

Phyrexian Bloodstock (pls)
PLS · #50common
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.52
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature leaves the battlefield, destroy target white creature. It can't be regenerated.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
Legal
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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