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Witch-king, Sky Scourge

Legendary Creature — Wraith Noble5 generic manaBlack manaRed mana

Rakdos impulse-draw has usually been transactional: hit a creature or a face, exile a couple off the top, spend them before the turn ends. This scales the whole engine to the board instead of the trigger. The exile count keys off total attacking Wraith power, so a wide or wide-and-fat wraith board doesn't dig deeper by casting more spells; it digs deeper by committing more bodies to the red zone, and every point of power in the swing turns into another card you can play that turn. That folds card advantage and combat into a single decision: the more you're willing to expose to blocks and removal, the more fuel you draw to rebuild. Undying is the counterweight that makes the aggression cheap to underwrite. A 5/5 flier that returns as a 6/6 the first time it dies means the attack that fills your hand is also hard to punish; you commit the Witch-king to the swing, trade or die, and it comes back bigger while your other Wraiths keep the impulse count high. The two halves reinforce each other: the recursion invites you to attack into unfavorable math, and attacking into that math is exactly what powers the refill. It is a lord-slot payoff built for a tribe that wants to go wide, stay wide, and turn the swing step itself into the draw step.

Witch-king, Sky Scourge (ltc)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever you attack with one or more Wraiths, exile the top X cards of your library, where X is their total power. You may play those cards this turn. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
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
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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
N/A
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