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Mtg scarecrow king6/23/2023 ![]() It's an ominous figure, but it kind of conveys a lot of innocence. That little bag head is almost cute, cocked like a curious animal and regarding us with beady, emotionless little eyes. Love those little guys cowering in the corner, too.Īnother creepy-as-hell flyer and a simply gorgeous image, with the dim sunlight filtering through the dark, torn wings. It's tough to say which piece qualifies most as its "head" or "face," between the broken jaw-like pail, forked branch and dangling lantern. Our second flamer and with a frighteningly odd anatomy for a humanoid. Which end is the front? What the heck is that jointed appendage we're looking at? Scuttlemutt has the impressive ability to generate mana of any color and change other creatures to any color or combination of colors you wish until the turn is over, which would be pretty handy in conjunction with the skulkins. I like how the skull is held on with rusty, bent wire.Ī cute one in both name and design, if difficult to figure out. She allows you to sacrifice scarecrows in order to draw extra cards, but can also bring creature cards back to life, recycling scarecrows as magical fuel again and again!Ī Skulkin able to boost the strength of green-mana creatures could have used some moss or mildew on its bones, but you can never go wrong with cow-skull heads. Scarecrone is just what you expect, a cackling pointy-nosed witch made of twigs and muddy bedsheets. ![]() Somebody beat me to an all-too perfect Mortasheen monster name. The two bird-like heads are pretty neat, particularly how that dangling belt-flap, or whatever it is, gives the impression of a screeching mouth with a bright yellow tongue.ĭamn. Skulkins are actually able to grant abilities to other creatures of specific mana colors, and this one gives black creatures the "Wither" ability, allowing them to permanently weaken their foes!Īnother flying one, not as terrifying as the Tatterkite, but a little more bizarre. Fangy seems to be one of the smallest Skulkins, a nasty little clot of bone and hair with what may be the skull of a large bat or vicious, swamp-dwelling rodent. The art really nicely conveys a creature toiling away at a single, grim mission.Īnother scuzzy one from Ron Brown, the Skulkins are some of the most interesting of the Scarecrow family, seemingly so named as a play on their use of animal skulls. This, sadly, destroys the Heap Doll as well, so you won't be counteracting any massive zombie uprisings with the little guy, but you can take care of one particularly bothersome cadaver. The Heap Doll's sole function is to remove a creature from any graveyard (discard pile) completely from the game, basically ensuring your opponent can never use any spells or abilities to resurrect it. It's hard to make out the finer details of this one, but that really only adds to this atmospheric scene. A murderous scarecrow can even make an obvious disadvantage seem bad-ass. This one's gimmick is that it enters play unable to attack, until it breaks out of its chains in a couple turns. Its branching, rootlike legs are quite cool, as are the branches sprouting down its back like some sort of spinal outgrowth. This one has a classic, cartoonish Halloween feel to it, with nice lopsided proportions. Or did it put itself together? That seems to be implied by a lot of these fiends. How many monsters have you ever seen with a skeletal human arm and rib-cage for a leg? Whoever put this thing together is a true visionary. ![]() Not the only one we'll be seeing on fire, though this one has the added edge of including human remains in its construction. It wouldn't look right flapping around anywhere else. You couldn't ask for a better locale than a fog-shrouded tangle of dead trees, either. Tatterkite is one of a few flying scarecrows, and how terrifying is this thing? It looks like something straight out of Scary Stories with that fuzzy, whispy body and decomposed face. These moldy marauders span more than one set, but we'll be going in the usual "however I feel like it" order, ending on my undisputed favorites. ![]() This is another review where I'll be trying to include every qualifying creature. ![]() In the years since, scarecrows have returned to the game on a few modest occasions, and what they lack in number, they make up for in sheer ingenuity. Simple, straightforward, remarkably scary. The first ever printed, known only as Scarecrow, was this ghoulish "artifact creature" painted by good old Anson Maddocks. Unsurprisingly, this is far from the case for Scarecrows in the world of Magic. There's just something I find so charmingly dreadful about a crude figure of sticks, rags, burlap and hay lurching to life, but rarely are they executed with the care they deserve. Of all my favorite monster categories, scarecrows probably come up the least often. A Magic: The Gathering Creature Review by Jonathan Wojcik ![]()
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