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Plague Reaver

Creature — Beast2 generic manaBlack mana

The trick here is that a 6/5 for three mana with a suicidal end-step clause is not the point: the second ability is, and it turns a drawback into a weapon. Most oversized beaters with a self-immolating downside ask you to race the clock before the board wipes itself. This one hands the clock to somebody else. By discarding two and sacrificing it, you deposit the entire liability onto a target opponent, who inherits a body that starts eating their own board at their next end step. The end-step sacrifice reads as a cost to you until you realize whose end step it will be firing on after the toss. That reframes the whole card: it is not a fragile threat you protect, it is a hot potato you build a deck to keep passing. Reanimation, blink, and repeatable graveyard recursion all stop being value engines and start being retrieval mechanisms, pulling the Reaver back so you can gift it again the next turn. The two-card discard is the friction on the loop, not the sacrifice: throwing it costs cards, so the political calculus is real. The best home is a deck that already treats its creatures as expendable, one happy to strand a lone 6/5 on an opponent's side and let the sacrifice trigger dismantle whatever they spent the game assembling. A drawback creature reengineered into a griefing tool.

Plague Reaver (cmr)
CMR · #143rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.34
Foil: $0.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice each other creature you control. Discard two cards, Sacrifice this creature: Choose target opponent. Return this creature to the battlefield under that player's control at the beginning of their next upkeep.
Legalities

Format Status

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