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Torrential Gearhulk

Artifact Creature — Construct4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The flash on a 5/6 body is doing two jobs at once: it makes the construct a credible blocker that ambushes attackers, and it turns the enter trigger into an instant-speed window. That second function is the whole design. Holding up six mana, you represent both a hard cast on your opponent's end step and a recast of any instant already in the graveyard, so a sweeper, a counterspell, or a removal spell gets fired a second time on a body that often survives the turn. Earlier graveyard-recursion finishers leaned on sorceries or general spell recall; restricting the rebuy to instants is what keeps this from spiraling, since the trigger respects the same timing the card itself uses. The exile clause is the tax that pays for the value: whatever you flash back is gone for good rather than feeding a loop, so each Gearhulk converts exactly one instant in the yard into one free cast plus a hard-to-kill blocker. That math is clean enough that the card behaves less like a creature and more like a removal spell or counterspell with a 5/6 stapled on, deployed at the moment of maximum information. The body matters too; six toughness shrugs off most of the burn that would punish a blue control deck for tapping out, and five power closes games faster than the usual blue endgame.

Torrential Gearhulk (pkld)
PKLD · #67smythic
Pricing
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Foil: $6.68
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash When this creature enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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