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Shorecrasher Elemental

Creature — ElementalBlue manaBlue manaBlue mana

Three blue pips on a 3/3 for three is the tell that this creature is built to be difficult, and the Blue mana self-blink is what that color commitment buys. Tap one blue and it exiles itself and returns face down as a fresh 2/2, dodging targeted removal and shedding any triggers or tags an opponent tried to hang on it. The resilience is narrow, though: the returned body is a zero-mana-value 2/2, which slips out from under spot removal but walks straight into anything that sweeps small creatures, so the trick blanks a Doom Blade while doing nothing against a lockdown that catches everything at two or less. The 1 generic mana stat-shifting ability stacks underneath while the card is face up, sliding the 3/3 toward 4/2 or 2/4 to steal or survive a combat trade at instant speed, and that mode wants only a single generic mana, not a blue one. The two lines are at war: any pumps you sink in evaporate the instant you blink, because the creature comes back as a new face-down object with no memory of the boosts, so you cannot bank a size and then duck a spell with it. Megamorph is the third gear, a cheap face-down deployment for 3 generic mana that flips up later for 4 generic manaBlue mana with a +1/+1 counter attached. Together these make a body that is genuinely awkward to kill and irritating to block, so long as you leave that single blue pip untapped: the blink, the one line that shrugs off removal, goes dead the moment your mana is spent elsewhere.

Shorecrasher Elemental (dtk)
DTK · #73mythic
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil: $0.92
Oracle Text

Rules text

Blue mana: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield face down under its owner's control. 1 generic mana: This creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn. Megamorph 4 generic manaBlue mana (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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