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Silumgar, the Drifting Death

Legendary Creature — Dragon4 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana

A 3/7 with hexproof reads like a wall, and that is half the joke: this is a defensive body welded to an offensive engine. The hexproof is the load-bearing piece, since it shields the Dragon from targeted removal and from the spot answers a chump-blocking opponent would otherwise use to break up a creature that wants to attack repeatedly. The seven toughness means combat math rarely kills it either, so the attack trigger fires turn after turn with little risk. That trigger is the synergy hook: every Dragon you control, not just this one, hands the defending player a board-wide -1/-1, which clears small blockers, shrinks chump defenders below lethal, and can outright sweep a field of tokens before damage is even assigned. It rewards a board of fliers swinging together, where each attacker stacks another wave of -1/-1 onto the defender's creatures in the same combat. The design is a deliberate inversion of the usual Dragon template: rather than a hasty, fragile beater, it wants a Dragon shell playing the long game, protected and patient, leaning on a body that survives nearly anything while the attack triggers grind the opposing board into nothing. The clan-leader framing puts a slow, attritional spin on a creature type built almost entirely around speed and reach.

Silumgar, the Drifting Death (c17)
C17 · #194rare
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Normal: $0.86
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, hexproof Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, creatures defending player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn.
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
N/A
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