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Screaming Phantom

Creature — Spirit2 generic manaBlack mana

The mill here is not a plan; it is a texture. A 2/2 flyer for three mana that grinds one card off your own library each time it swings joins two impulses that rarely want the same deck: an evasive beater eager to attack early and often, and a self-mill trigger that wants something waiting in the graveyard to reward it. Milling yourself asks for a payoff (reanimation targets, delirium, threshold, a graveyard-matters engine), while a two-power flyer's natural home is a curve that just wants to attack and win before the trigger ever matters. That friction is the whole design: the mill is small enough that it never threatens to deck you and rarely swings a game on raw card count, so the card lives or dies on whether the fuel it drops into the yard is worth more than the trigger costs to include. In a shell that cares, each attack quietly stocks a resource; in a shell that doesn't, the card in the graveyard is simply gone. It slots into the familiar role of a small evasive black body stapled to a low-grade self-mill trigger: the piece that fleshes out a graveyard theme without ever headlining it. Evasion and incremental fuel arrive on the same body precisely because neither alone would earn the slot.

Screaming Phantom (lci)
LCI · #118common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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