Scorpion, Seething Striker

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Scorpion is a 4-mana 3/3 deathtouch legendary that rewards creature death with a connive trigger at end of step — providing card filtering and potential +1/+1 counter growth. It fits best in aristocrats/sacrifice shells where creatures die regularly, though the once-per-turn, end-step trigger and nonland discard requirement make it a value engine rather than a bomb. Deathtouch makes it a reasonable blocker/attacker threat.

• The connive trigger fires at the beginning of your end step, so creatures that die during combat or via sacrifice outlets earlier in the turn will satisfy the condition — but creatures that die after the trigger resolves won't count for a second trigger.

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• Because connive requires discarding a nonland card to place a +1/+1 counter, the card draw/discard is always guaranteed (good for looting/filtering), but the counter is conditional on hand composition — making it weaker in land-flood scenarios.

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• As a Scorpion Human Villain, Scorpion has three creature subtypes but 'Scorpion' is an extremely narrow tribe; the most relevant subtype for synergy is Human in black, though deathtouch is the primary play-pattern enabler.

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• EDHREC rank: #12,071