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Yargle and Multani

Legendary Creature — Frog Spirit Elemental3 generic manaBlack manaBlack manaGreen mana

A joke made permanent. The original Yargle, Glutton of Urborg was a vanilla 9/3 for five, a text box left deliberately empty, an inside gag about a big dumb frog that stuck hard enough for Wizards to double down. Fusing him with Multani stacks the number without adding a single word of rules text: 18/6 is exactly double the old 9/3, and that arithmetic is the whole design, a legend whose type line promises a Frog Spirit Elemental and whose text box promises nothing at all. That is the conceit. Multani, Maro-Sorcerer built his identity on drawing power from the battlefield and hand and hauling himself out of the graveyard, and none of it survives the merge; what carries over is only the silhouette of two enormous green-black creatures and a body that reads like a punchline. The result is a curio built on a real structural tension: 18 power with no evasion and no protection dies to any single removal spell, stalls behind a chump block, and needs to connect exactly once to matter. Everything that would make the gamble worthwhile has to be supplied from outside the card, because inside it there is only the number. It is fan service in the costume of a threat: a legendary slot spent on a bit, and committed to completely.

Yargle and Multani (sld)
SLD · #872rare
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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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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