Gorma, the Gullet

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Gorma is a 3cmc legendary Pest Frog with lifelink that grows via death triggers and grants incoming nontoken creatures +1/+1 counters equal to this turn's death count — making it a snowballing aristocrats/sacrifice engine that rewards creature churn. It's signature in aristocrats and sacrifice shells where creatures die repeatedly in a single turn, letting each subsequent ETB creature enter larger; plus-one-counters and counters-voltron decks exploit the stat inflation. Tokens-go-wide is a soft negative because Gorma only pumps nontoken creatures, wasting the static ability on the deck's primary payoff; control lacks the creature density to trigger it meaningfully.

• Gorma's static ability only applies to NONTOKEN creatures entering the battlefield, meaning heavy token-generator builds get almost no value from the second ability despite frequent death triggers.

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• Because Gorma's ETB counter bonus scales with creatures that died 'this turn,' mass sacrifice effects (e.g. Ashnod's Altar loops) executed in a single turn allow the next nontoken ETB to enter with an enormous counter bonus, enabling surprise one-shot voltron lines.

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• Gorma itself grows from any creature death including tokens, so it can become a very large lifelink attacker even in a token-heavy shell — but the ETB static clause remains nontoken-only regardless.

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• EDHREC rank: #8,852