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Moxonomy

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Legendary Creature — Human Knight3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

The trigger clause is the whole design here, and it is written to fire from three directions at once: another creature dying (leaving the battlefield for a graveyard), a creature card entering a graveyard from anywhere else (mill, discard, a Faithless Looting pitch), and a creature card leaving your graveyard (reanimation, delve, an exile-cost sacrifice from the yard). Most aristocrats payoffs care about death alone; this one taxes the middle and back end of a creature card's lifecycle too. The 1 generic manaBlack mana activation is a self-contained fuel line for the entering clause: it kills nothing, but it slides creature cards from library into graveyard, banking a damage ping on entry that you can bank again by reanimating or exiling them back out. Mill your own creatures for the entering-the-yard trigger, then pull them out for the leaving-the-yard trigger, and a single card fires the engine coming and going. The result is a build-around that converts graveyard velocity into a burn engine, punishing the opponent for every board wipe, every sacrifice outlet, every self-mill loop you were already running. Note the asymmetry the ability quietly enforces: the 1 generic manaBlack mana activation mills every player, but the damage points at opponents only, so symmetrical fuel produces one-sided pressure. The 5/4 body is beside the point; nobody runs this to attack. It turns a strategy black has always leaned toward (graveyards, sacrifice, recursion) into a clock that closes games without ever declaring an attacker.

Syr Konrad, the Grim (pw23)
PW23 · #5rare
Pricing
Normal: $2.57
Foil: $4.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. 1 generic manaBlack mana: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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