Corpsejack Menace
The List IMA-197 • uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Collector number
- IMA-197
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black · Green
- Artist
- Chris Rahn
- Market price
- $1.60
What it does
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
Weakness is not in the nature of the Swarm.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Corpsejack Menace was originally introduced in the 2012 expansion set Return to Ravnica as a quintessential creature of the Golgari Swarm. Designed for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, the card reflects the aesthetic shift toward the decaying, fungal, and insectoid themes of the Golgari guild, emphasizing their mechanical identity of manipulating +1/+1 counters. The artwork, illustrated by Svetlin Velinov, depicts the creature as a hulking, moss-covered monstrosity, grounding the mechanical power of the card in the dark, organic fantasy style characteristic of the Ravnica plane.
The inclusion of this specific card in The List—a curated selection of reprints integrated into later booster packs—serves to provide players with ongoing access to functional staples of the Commander format. Its continued popularity is rooted in its straightforward, high-impact ability that doubles the efficiency of +1/+1 counters, making it a reliable inclusion in green-black deck archetypes. The card has been widely received as a cornerstone of counter-based strategies, maintaining its relevance across multiple years of changing game dynamics.
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