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Rot-Tide Gargantua

Creature — Zombie Kraken3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Feed it a creature on the way in, and every opponent has to give one up too: a symmetrical edict wrapped around an already-attractive 5/4 for five, where the symmetry is a fiction that favors you at both ends. You control the exploit trigger and choose the fodder, so you spend something you were happy to lose (a token, a spent utility body, a creature already marked for death), while each opponent sacrifices afterward, on their own terms, shedding their least valuable body. Against a single opponent it is a two-for-one that also swings; across a wider board, the edict multiplies. The exploit clause is optional, so with nothing worth feeding it, the card simply arrives as a beater and waits. Edict effects have long been black's answer to hexproof and singular threats, sidestepping targeting restrictions by making the defender choose. Pairing one with a recurring, re-triggerable body is the wrinkle: any blink or reanimation re-arms the exploit, so a single removal spell becomes an attrition tax you can levy again every time the Gargantua re-enters. That distinguishes it from the rest of the exploit line, which mostly converts the sacrifice into a private value spell (draw a card, drain some life, kill one thing). Here the sacrifice is aimed outward, turning your own board maintenance into everyone else's problem.

Rot-Tide Gargantua (vow)
VOW · #129common
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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