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The Beast, Deathless Prince

Legendary Creature — Demon2 generic manaBlack manaRed mana

The design trick here is a self-imposed prison that the card hands you the key to. A 6/6 for four mana in these colors would ordinarily be a mistake, so the payment comes up front: six stun counters mean six untap steps of sitting inert before the demon can swing on its own. That is a brutal down payment, and most cards that ask it would leave you waiting. This one refuses to wait, because it wrote you a way to serve the sentence early. The cast trigger steals a creature, untaps it, and gives it menace and haste, so a borrowed body can go to work the turn you land the demon. The parole condition is where the design turns strange: the untap-and-draw fires when a creature deals combat damage to its owner. Swing that stolen creature back into the opponent you took it from, and their own attacker knocks a counter off The Beast and refills your hand. The engine rewards turning an opponent's creatures against them, whether by theft or by any other means of controlling a body long enough to point it home. Each such hit shaves a step off the sentence and pays you a card for the trouble. It is a card built around a peculiar loop: you win by making other people's creatures betray them, and the more that betrayal lands where it hurts, the faster the demon gets off the leash.

The Beast, Deathless Prince (who)
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Pricing
Normal: $0.34
Foil: $7.04
Oracle Text

Rules text

When you cast this spell, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gains menace and haste until end of turn. The Beast enters tapped with six stun counters on it. (If it would become untapped, remove a stun counter from it instead.) Whenever a creature deals combat damage to its owner, untap The Beast and 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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