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Thraben Foulbloods

Creature — Zombie Dog2 generic manaBlack mana

Black gets a plain three-mana body here, and the delirium clause is the entire transaction: four card types in the graveyard before it pays out. That threshold is the friction the design leans on. A deck running mostly creatures and removal will not clear it by accident, so reaching four types means banking instants, sorceries, artifacts, lands, or enchantments alongside the bodies. The creature contributes nothing to that count on its own; it is strictly a payoff, waiting on a graveyard already stocked by cheap spells, self-discard, or mill. Once delirium comes online, the +1/+1 is the lesser half of the reward. Menace is the operative piece. A 3/2 trades one-for-one against a lone blocker; the delirium-sized version forces the opponent to commit two bodies to stop one attacker, which is exactly the math an aggressive black deck wants when the board has gummed up and damage needs to push through. The card asks for its price up front: undelivered, it is a middling attacker and little else, and the conditional only flips when the graveyard reflects a deck built to feed it. It belongs to a line of common-rarity delirium payoffs meant to give graveyard-matters strategies a reason to run aggressive creatures, rewarding the deck already doing the mechanic's work rather than handing the bonus over for free.

Thraben Foulbloods (emn)
EMN · #108common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

Delirium — This creature gets +1/+1 and has menace as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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