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Segovian Leviathan

Creature — Leviathan4 generic manaBlue mana

The joke is the scale. Segovia is the plane Magic invented to host miniature versions of creatures whose names usually promise something enormous, and the design follows the premise to its logical end: a Leviathan that costs five mana, carries a 3/3 body, and slips past blockers on Islandwalk rather than crashing through them. The type line does the heavy lifting that the stats refuse to. Set this next to the Leviathans of its era, the eight-mana sea monsters with trample and untap costs that asked you to sacrifice Islands just to attack, and the choice becomes clear: this is the tribe stripped of its drawbacks and its grandeur in equal measure, leaving only the evasion keyword that thematically belongs to a sea creature. Islandwalk is static evasion, not conditional on combat math or a trigger: against an opponent on Islands the body is simply unblockable, which is the rate's quiet argument, and against everything else the 3/3 is filler. The whole thing functions as flavor exercise first and creature second, which is why it has surfaced in casual products whenever Wizards wants a cheap Leviathan that does not break the curve. The mechanical body without the tribe would be unremarkable; the tribe is the entire point.

Segovian Leviathan (4bb)
4BB · #99uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
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
Legal
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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