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Sumala Sentry

Creature — Elf ArcherGreen manaWhite mana

A disguise payoff that doubles back on itself. The trigger keys off the flip event rather than any creature type or color, so it treats every face-down permanent you control as a delayed growth spell: unmask something and two counters land, one on the newly-revealed permanent and one here. The design rewards a board built around cloak and disguise, because each reveal grows the shell that generated it while the Sentry compounds alongside. Left alone, the 1/3 with reach is a defensive wall, a body that trades up in the air and holds ground on the floor; the counters are what turn it from a speed bump into a clock. What keeps the payoff honest is that it needs a critical mass of face-down permanents to matter, and every flip is a one-time event: no face-down cards means the ability is dead text, so the card demands commitment to the subtheme rather than a light splash. The reach is not incidental either, since a growing body with reach becomes a genuine air blocker as the counters accumulate, letting a cheap deployment scale into a defensive anchor that also threatens damage. The point of the design is to hand a face-down archetype an aggressive engine rather than a purely evasive one: a wall that gets taller every time you pull off a mask.

Sumala Sentry (mkm)
MKM · #233uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach Whenever a face-down permanent you control is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on it and a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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