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Species Specialist

Creature — Human Warrior2 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

The interesting wrinkle is that you commit to a creature type at entry, but nothing forces that type to be yours. Point it at the tokens your opponents make (Zombies, Goblins, Saprolings, whatever the table happens to be flooding the board with), and this becomes a passive card-draw engine that fires on other people's boards without asking you to do anything but sit behind a 2/3. That is the reversal that separates it from the usual black tribal payoff: most cards in this space reward you for killing your own creatures or racking up a personal death count, tying the engine to a sacrifice loop you have to build and maintain. This one taxes attrition wherever it happens. In a symmetrical grind, whoever picks the most-populated type turns every trade, every board wipe, every chump block into a draw trigger. The ceiling depends entirely on reading the board correctly at the moment it resolves, since the choice is locked in as it enters and cannot be re-aimed if the metagame shifts around it. It draws optionally ("you may"), a small courtesy that keeps you from decking yourself when the corpses pile up faster than you want them to.

Species Specialist (c20)
C20 · #47rare
Pricing
Normal: $10.57
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Oracle Text

Rules text

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.
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
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
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
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