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Vizier of the Scorpion

Creature — Zombie Wizard2 generic manaBlack mana

Amass builds a single Army by piling counters onto one body, and a lone token is easy for the opponent to plan around: chump it, race it, block it with something they don't mind losing. This card rewrites that calculation by handing deathtouch to every Zombie token you control, which includes the Army it makes on entry (Army tokens are themselves Zombies). Suddenly the fat single body an Amass deck has been assembling threatens to kill anything that touches it, so blocks become trades and attacks into it become suicidal. The entry trigger keeps the engine self-sufficient: it feeds its own Army the moment it lands rather than needing a separate token-maker to justify the anthem. That said, the deathtouch clause only pays off when there are tokens to point it at, so the card wants to sit inside a Zombie-and-Army shell rather than carry a board by itself. Alone it makes a small counter and stands there; surrounded by expendable bodies it converts a pile of throwaway creatures into a mutual-destruction standoff, which is combat math a swarm of small attackers rarely gets to impose.

Vizier of the Scorpion (war)
WAR · #111uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.32
Foil: $1.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Zombie tokens you control have deathtouch.
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
Legal
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