Insidious Fungus

Insidious Fungus

Mana Cost: {G}

Type: Creature — Fungus

Oracle Text:
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Draw a card. Then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Power/Toughness: 1/2

Rarity: uncommon

Prints: View all prints (1) →

Expansion: Duskmourn: House of Horror

Price ( USD): $0.40

USD: $0.40 · EUR: €0.42

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Character Background

Insidious Fungus is a one-mana 1/2 that punches above its weight as a flexible toolbox piece for value-oriented green midrange or control shells: its sacrifice modes let you pay {2} to answer stubborn artifacts or enchantments—solutions green rarely has—or convert itself into card advantage and acceleration by drawing a card and cheating a land into play tapped. Play it as a hedge against artifact/enchantment decks in the main or sideboard, or as recurring utility in sacrifice synergies: it pairs particularly well with Viscera Seer or Altar of Dementia for free selection, with Mayhem Devil or Blood Artist to convert sacrifices into incremental damage, or with Eternal Witness/Regrowth effects to reuse its modes. In ramp decks the draw+land option smooths mana while the body defends early turns; in midrange it’s a cheap removal window and repeatable threat to recur. Run two to three copies, and consider sacrificing it proactively when you need tempo or recursion fodder rather than holding it as a vanilla blocker.

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