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Sandstalker Moloch

Creature — Lizard1 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

A hatebear built to punish the exact players who most want to hold up mana. Green rarely gets to interact with the stack, so this creature routes that interaction through a body: cast it in response to a blue or black spell, and the flash creature both develops the board and digs four deep for a permanent. The conditional is the whole engine. Against a green or red opponent it is a 4/2 for three that flashes in and does nothing extra, a fragile beater with the toughness of a two-drop. Against the durdle-and-answer archetypes running the two colors most likely to cast on your turn, it becomes card selection stapled to a flash threat, arriving at the moment their tempo is already committed elsewhere. The design is a metagame tax dressed as a green creature: it costs the control and reanimator seats something every time they cast into an open board, and it rewards the aggressor for knowing which opponents pay. The 4/2 line is deliberately porous, the flash keyword deliberately narrow in what it enables here. This is a threat whose ceiling is entirely a function of who is sitting across the table, an answer to a specific style of play folded into a creature that reads as unconditional and is anything but.

Sandstalker Moloch (mom)
MOM · #203uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash When this creature enters, if an opponent cast a blue and/or black spell this turn, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a permanent card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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