Heart-Piercer Manticore

set	min	mtgo
-	4.60	0.01 tix

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Name	Heart-Piercer Manticore
Type	Creature — manticore
Description	When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, this creature deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target. Embalm (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, excepSee more
Artist	Scott Murphy
Set	Pioneer Masters #94374
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Heart-Piercer Manticore

Heart-Piercer Manticore, Creature — manticore, designed by Scott Murphy first released in Apr, 2017 in the set Amonkhet Promos and was printed exactly in 4 different ways. It see play in 1 formats: Commander. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 4.60.

Heart-Piercer Manticore would be a great fit in a red aggressive deck that focuses on sacrificing creatures for value and dealing direct damage to the opponent. While it offers a versatile ability, there are potentially better cards like Siege-Gang Commander that provide more consistent value and board presence. However, in the right deck, Heart-Piercer Manticore could see play as a situational but impactful card.

Rules

07/14/17

If a spell or ability puts a creature card with embalm into your graveyard during your main phase, you’ll have priority immediately after that spell or ability resolves. You can activate the creature card’s embalm ability before any player can exile it with an effect, such as that of Crook of Condemnation, if it’s legal for you to do so.

04/18/17

For each card with embalm, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Amonkhet booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with embalm; you can use the same items to represent an embalmed token as you would any other token.

04/18/17

Heart-Piercer Manticore features a new style of triggered ability. When it enters the battlefield, its triggered ability goes on the stack without a target. While that ability is resolving, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, a second ability triggers and you pick a target that will be dealt damage. This is different from other abilities that say “If you do . . .” in that players may cast spells and activate abilities before a creature is sacrificed and then again after the creature is sacrificed but before damage is dealt.

04/18/17

The sacrificed creature’s last known existence on the battlefield is checked to determine its power.

04/18/17

The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is white instead of its other colors. It has no mana cost, and thus its converted mana cost is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy.