Echo Stalker of the Caverns
Chupacabra Echo is a compact, efficient threat that rewards graveyard investment. The card name signals its role in black midrange and sacrifice decks where permanent count in your graveyard scales its impact. Casting Chupacabra Echo offers immediate removal potential because its Fathomless descent ability reduces an opposing creature based on your permanents in the graveyard, turning a steady graveyard plan into a tempo swing on entry.
Play it early to trade up on blockers or drop it later when you have several permanents in the graveyard and convert that advantage into a kill or a clean attack lane. The creature type Beast Horror Spirit hints at the set lore where echoes of vanished predators haunt the caverns. Chupacabra Echo is a practical inclusion if you run self mill, sacrifice outlets, or cards that recur permanents to boost its entry effect consistently.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {2}{B}{B}
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Card Type – Creature
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Subtypes – Beast Horror Spirit
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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.
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Power / Toughness – 3/2