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Silumgar Butcher

Creature — Zombie Djinn4 generic manaBlack mana

Exploit turns a sacrifice into a payment, and this is the design that spends that payment on removal. The mechanic is conditional: the trigger only fires if you actually sacrifice a creature, so the -3/-3 is something you choose to buy, not something the card hands you for free. That structure makes the card a two-for-one waiting to happen. Sacrifice a creature that has already done its job (a dying token, a spent value engine, something carrying a death trigger of its own) and you convert a body that was about to be useless into a kill spell for almost anything on the board. Against an empty field, decline the exploit and play it as a plain 3/3, so the card is never stranded when there is nothing worth trading. The -3/-3 size is the telling number: enough to drop most midsized creatures and to gang up with a point of incidental damage against larger threats, but capped so it cannot erase the biggest bodies on its own. It is black's recurring trick of paying life or creatures to push a removal effect onto a stick, here folded into a keyword that rewards a board already built to feed it.

Silumgar Butcher (plst)
PLST · #DTK-122common
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Normal: $0.10
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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