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Zombie Boa

Creature — Zombie Snake4 generic manaBlack mana

Color-hosing built into a body, but pointed at the combat step rather than the spell. The activated ability names a color (any color, chosen fresh each activation) and turns the next block by that color into a death sentence, which makes this less a creature that swings for three and more one that interrogates an opponent's defenses before they commit. The sorcery-speed clause is the leash: you set the trap on your own turn, in advance, so the threat lives entirely in the attack you telegraph rather than in a surprise during combat. An opponent who knows the color is locked can simply block with something else, so the card functions more as a deterrent than a guaranteed two-for-one; its value sits in the blocks it discourages as much as the creatures it kills. The design belongs to an early-era taste for folding selective hate into bodies rather than into sweeping protection clauses or punisher enchantments: a single color's worth of intimidation, reapplied each turn and retargetable as the board shifts. The repeatable activation means the choice resets, so against a multicolor wall it can rotate which color it threatens turn to turn, but the 1 generic manaBlack mana reinvestment and the can't-react timing keep it honest as a midrange threat rather than a runaway engine. The result is a creature that wants to be feared more than it wants to fight.

Zombie Boa (apc)
APC · #54common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.49
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic manaBlack mana: Choose a color. Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature of that color this turn, destroy that creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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