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Tyranid Prime

Creature — Tyranid1 generic manaGreen manaBlue mana

Evolve was always a keyword that punished commitment: it wanted you to pour bigger creatures onto the board one at a time, and it lived on a single body that could only grow so fast. The Synapse Creature clause here breaks that ceiling. Instead of one evolving anchor, every creature you control gains the trigger, so a single addition can pump several bodies at once as long as it clears someone's power-or-toughness bar. That is the design pivot: evolve stops being a tax that rides your best drop and becomes a static swarm engine that compounds across the whole board. The 0/4 frame is the tell for how the deck should be assembled. Starting at zero power makes this the hungriest evolver on the field: almost any creature that enters clears its power, so it fattens itself as fast as it fattens the team, turning a wall into an attacker without any help from combat. That same relational logic rewards a curve of incremental threats over a top-heavy one, since evolve keys on greater power or toughness, and a stream of small utility creatures keeps triggering growth as long as each edges out something already down. The card sits at the intersection of two green-blue instincts, going wide and rewarding creature density, and hands the keyword the multiplication it never had on its own.

Tyranid Prime (40k)
40K · #145★rare
Pricing
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Foil: $5.52
Oracle Text

Rules text

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Synapse Creature — Other creatures you control have evolve.
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
Legal
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