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Retched Wretch
Oracle Text
When this creature dies, if it had a -1/-1 counter on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control and it loses all abilities.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Retched Wretch reads like a bruiser-built goblin who survives by playing dirty: a 4/2 for {2}{B} that pushes an aggressive or tempo game plan while doubling as a sacrificial value piece in aristocrats shells. Its death trigger rewards you for putting a -1/-1 counter on it—after dying it comes back as a vanilla 4/2 with no abilities—so build decks that can reliably mark it (cards that place -1/-1 counters or effects that trade damage for counters) and then finish the job with a sacrifice outlet. Specific synergies include pairing it with sacrifice engines like Viscera Seer or Carrion Feeder to convert each return into card selection, life drain, or token fodder, and with -1/-1 payoffs (Hapatra-style themes or proliferate support) to get consistent recursion. Be mindful that the returned creature loses abilities, so it’s not an infinite loop engine—treat it as repeatable tempo and value rather than a combo piece.
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Character Background
Retched Wretch reads like a bruiser-built goblin who survives by playing dirty: a 4/2 for {2}{B} that pushes an aggressive or tempo game plan while doubling as a sacrificial value piece in aristocrats shells. Its death trigger rewards you for putting a -1/-1 counter on it—after dying it comes back as a vanilla 4/2 with no abilities—so build decks that can reliably mark it (cards that place -1/-1 counters or effects that trade damage for counters) and then finish the job with a sacrifice outlet. Specific synergies include pairing it with sacrifice engines like Viscera Seer or Carrion Feeder to convert each return into card selection, life drain, or token fodder, and with -1/-1 payoffs (Hapatra-style themes or proliferate support) to get consistent recursion. Be mindful that the returned creature loses abilities, so it’s not an infinite loop engine—treat it as repeatable tempo and value rather than a combo piece.
Generated using gpt-5-mini · Updated at 2026-05-16 10:40:44 UTC