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Tiller of Flesh

Creature — Phyrexian Knight3 generic manaWhite mana

Targeting is the hidden cost here, and the design turns it into a payoff. Most white removal, buffs, and combat tricks single out a permanent as a matter of course; this Knight sits behind those spells and skims a reward off each one, banking a two-counter Incubator every time you point something at the board. The trigger cares only that a spell targets one or more permanents, so an aura, a pump spell, or a piece of interaction all feed it equally, which is a broader net than the "removal matters" designs it resembles. The body is doing quiet work too: a 2/4 blocks and survives most of the early game while the tokens accumulate off in reserve, and each Incubator is a delayed 2/2 that flips for two mana on the turn you actually want a creature rather than one forced onto the board immediately. That decoupling is the interesting part: the value is stored as an artifact until you need a threat, so the engine doesn't overextend into a sweeper the way a stream of small creatures would. The archetype it wants is one already casting a lot of targeted spells, and it asks nothing extra of them: the targeting they were doing anyway is the whole trigger.

Tiller of Flesh (mom)
MOM · #44uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more permanents, incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "2 generic mana: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
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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