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Ukkima, Stalking Shadow

Legendary Creature — Whale Wolf1 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana

The unblockable clause is the setup; the leaves-the-battlefield trigger is the payoff, and the trick is that the two abilities were built to be fired repeatedly rather than kept on the board. A 2/2 that can't be blocked chips in a couple of points each turn, but the real value comes from bouncing, blinking, or sacrificing it: every time it leaves, it drains for its power and refunds you the same amount of life, so the body becomes a reusable Blood Artist-style trigger that also happens to be a clock. That reframes the design goal. Most evasive beaters want to stay on the battlefield swinging; this one wants to die on your terms, over and over, turning any recursion engine into a Reservoir of incremental drain. Pairing it with a way to grow its power multiplies both halves of the swing at once, since the same X governs the damage and the lifegain. The Partner-with clause quietly tutors up its counterpart, so the pair arrives as a package rather than a lucky draw. What holds the design together is that the damage only ever hits a single player, keeping it a targeted assassination tool rather than a board-wide finisher, and the two-color cost keeps it in the shell that most wants to abuse enter-and-leave loops.

Ukkima, Stalking Shadow (c20)
C20 · #17mythic
Pricing
Normal: $0.43
Foil: $0.54
Oracle Text

Rules text

Partner with Cazur, Ruthless Stalker (When this creature enters, target player may put Cazur into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Ukkima can't be blocked. When Ukkima leaves the battlefield, it deals X damage to target player and you gain X life, where X is its power.
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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