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Skirk Alarmist

Creature — Human Wizard1 generic manaRed mana

Most morph support sells you a discount: a cheaper unmorph, a splashier flip, a way to get your face-down 2/2s up for less. The wrinkle here is that it does not discount the cost; it erases it entirely. The tap ability flips a face-down creature face up for free, skipping the unmorph price the designers attached to it, and the sacrifice clause is what pays the bill instead: the creature is gone at the next end step. So the flip is a rental, not a permanent body. You cash a morph for its single best moment (the unmorph trigger, one swing with the real creature) and then feed it to whatever sacrifice engine you have built. The tapped activation caps you at one flip per turn cycle, which keeps the loop from spiraling. The sharpest line is in the targeting: the ability reads "creature you control," and a face-down creature you have stolen qualifies, so you can flip an opponent's morph up on your side and let the sacrifice clause delete the permanent before they get any use out of it. By itself this is a fragile 1/2 with haste and a slow, conditional tap. Slotted into a morph-aware shell, it becomes a toolbox dispenser that bypasses the mechanic's toll, treating every face-down creature as a free, disposable spell rather than a long-term investment.

Skirk Alarmist (lgn)
LGN · #111rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.34
Foil: $13.06
Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste Tap: Turn target face-down creature you control face up. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.
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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
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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