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Vulturous Aven

Creature — Bird Shaman3 generic manaBlack mana

Exploit folded the sacrifice outlet directly into the enters trigger, solving a long-standing friction in sacrifice-value decks: how to let a board of small creatures cash in without committing a separate card to the outlet. The body and the engine arrive together, and this is the curve-friendly draw payoff the mechanic was built to showcase. The exploit is optional, which carries more weight than it looks: with no spare creature to feed it, you simply keep a 2/3 flier, an evasive body that asks nothing of the board. Feed it a token, a creature already dying, or fodder you were glad to lose, and you turn that body into two fresh cards. The two life you pay is the cost that keeps the refuel from being free, and it sits comfortably in aristocrats shells that already want death triggers: the sacrificed creature can leave a parting gift, and the cards you draw refill behind it. The shape is the durdle-resistant version of the card-advantage sacrifice creature, since the value is bolted to a single entry rather than a repeatable loop. There is no engine to grind, no outlet to protect, no incremental drain to wall off. It does its work once, decisively, and then commits the flier to the air to close.

Vulturous Aven (dtk)
DTK · #126common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.44
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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