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Wailing Ghoul

Creature — Zombie1 generic manaBlack mana

Mill two on entry, stapled to a frame that can wall a two-drop and buy a turn: this is the enabler doing double duty, and the toughness is where the design shows its hand. Graveyard decks want their fuel to survive the early pressure, not fold to it, so a sturdy blocker that seeds two cards is worth more to them than a fragile body that mills the same amount and dies to the first attacker. There is no payoff bolted on: no delve discount, no reanimation hook, no sacrifice trigger. It trusts whatever engine surrounds it to convert those two cards into value, and it asks only that you have a reason to want cards in the yard at all. That restraint is deliberate, and it places this at the workhorse end of the self-mill lineage: cheap, dependable, and entirely reliant on the deck built to use it. It does one small thing, it does it on the cheapest sturdy chassis available, and it leaves the actual graveyard payoff to somebody else.

Wailing Ghoul (j25)
J25 · #511common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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