Spitting Gourna

Creature — Beast

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Morph (4)(Green) (You may play this face down as a 2/2 creature for (3). Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Tokens

• Morph 2/2 C

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (1)

TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

On Gatherer, there is an option to search for Anteaters. When you do, zero results queue. The only "anteaters" in Magic are Spitting Gourna, which is (as Kirbster points out on the page) is directly inferior to Swallowing Gourna. And then there is Prowling Pangolin.

This one will be for Ikoria, because why the heck not.

Of the "35" mono-red creature cards in Magic that contain the word 'Reach', only 20 of them actually have it. The rest are either in their reminder text for the keyword 'Flying', or are the reversed / transformed / flipped sides of cards that contain either of the two stipulations. Given that mono-red accounts for 2,218 creatures in total, this means that mono-red creatures with reach only make up 0.9% of them, as 1% would have been 22 cards (rounded, of course).

So, a mono-red creature with reach definitely fits the bill, here.

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Lenguraptor {4}{R}{R}

Creature - Anteater Dinosaur (One of those Rares that are awesome for Draft and will never see play elsewhere, ever again)

You may cast Lenguraptor as though it has flash during the declare blockers step if you are the defending player.

Reach

When Lenguraptor enters the battlefield or mutates, you may destroy target artifact, tapped nonbasic land insect, or creature with flying.

The name, meaning 'tongue-thief', is derived from both Spanish and Latin, referring to their means to endlessly take and devour with their impressive half-meter long appendage.

3/4

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Reach, flash and destroys flyers? Yeah, just snapped the color pie in half on this one.

Really made it overly complicated, which is what I was aiming for.

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And that's the next challenge. Make a card that is way more complicated than it needs to be.

Amulet of Quoz clocks in at 325 characters, including spaces, punctuation and the {0}, {T}.

So that is your reasonable limit. 325 characters.