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Shadow Urchin
Oracle Text
Whenever this creature attacks, blight 1. (Put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.)
Whenever a creature you control with one or more counters on it dies, exile that many cards from the top of your library. Until your next end step, you may play those cards.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Shadow Urchin looks built for a grindy value or sacrifice-tempo shell, where its attack trigger and death trigger turn counters into a resource instead of a drawback. A 3/4 for three mana is already sturdy, and blight 1 lets it “feed” a disposable creature or a counter-happy utility body while setting up the back half of the card. When one of your creatures with counters dies, exiling that many cards from the top of your library effectively reloads your hand for a turn, so the best deckbuilding plan is to pair it with creatures that naturally accumulate counters or are happy to be marked up and then cashed in. Think along the lines of +1/+1 counter decks, persist-style bodies, or sacrifice outlets that convert a doomed board into card access. In Lorwyn’s eerie twilight flavor, it feels like a predatory scavenger, thriving on decay and leaving you just enough buried resources to keep the pressure on.
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Character Background
Shadow Urchin looks built for a grindy value or sacrifice-tempo shell, where its attack trigger and death trigger turn counters into a resource instead of a drawback. A 3/4 for three mana is already sturdy, and blight 1 lets it “feed” a disposable creature or a counter-happy utility body while setting up the back half of the card. When one of your creatures with counters dies, exiling that many cards from the top of your library effectively reloads your hand for a turn, so the best deckbuilding plan is to pair it with creatures that naturally accumulate counters or are happy to be marked up and then cashed in. Think along the lines of +1/+1 counter decks, persist-style bodies, or sacrifice outlets that convert a doomed board into card access. In Lorwyn’s eerie twilight flavor, it feels like a predatory scavenger, thriving on decay and leaving you just enough buried resources to keep the pressure on.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 04:10:46 UTC