Chupacabra Echo (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan) Light Play

Echo of the Cavern Stalker

Chupacabra Echo joins the battlefield as a compact removal tool that scales with your graveyard. Chupacabra Echo works best in a build that fills the yard and pressures midrange targets. Its 3 power lets it trade or apply early clock while the ability reduces a single blocker or creature based on the number of permanents you have in your graveyard.

Play the Chupacabra Echo when you can take advantage of its entrance effect and leave room to grow the graveyard. The card reads plainly and performs predictably in grindy games where permanents are regularly sacrificed or milled. It fits cleanly into black strategies that leverage value from the yard and want a repeatable answer that is also a threat on the board.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost {2}{B}{B}
• Card Type Creature
• Subtypes Beast Horror Spirit
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) Fathomless descent: When Chupacabra Echo enters the battlefield, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
• Power / Toughness 3/2