Chupacabra Echo (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan) Near Mint

Echoing Hunger

Chupacabra Echo is a compact removal tool that scales with your graveyard. The card name appears here because its primary value is timing and resource count. At {2}{B}{B} this Beast Horror Spirit trades early board presence for a one time blow that can clear troublesome creatures when you have a stocked graveyard. It is straightforward to cast and fits into shell strategies that aim to fill the yard and then punish opposing boards.

Play it when you can leverage Fathomless descent to get the highest X possible. The effect converts your permanents in the graveyard into a temporary buff to your removal options and rewards careful sequencing. In limited it closes out life linkers and evasive threats. In constructed it pairs with self mill and sacrifice outlets and doubles as a tempo play that leaves a 3 2 body to pressure attackers or block later in the game.

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