Malboro: The Toxic Terror of the Swamp
The Malboro from the Universes Beyond: FINAL FANTASY set brings an unsettling presence to the battlefield. This Light Play Foil card features a 4/4 Plant Horror whose arrival disrupts your opponent's resources with the infamous Bad Breath ability. As it enters the battlefield, each opponent must discard a card, lose 2 life, and exile the top three cards of their library. This effect combines hand disruption, incremental life loss, and deck thinning, making Malboro a versatile threat in black-centric strategies.
Beyond its disruptive entry, Malboro boasts Swampcycling, allowing you to trade the card for a Swamp when it’s no longer needed, ensuring smooth mana fixing without losing tempo. The foil treatment highlights the creature’s grotesque form, making it a standout for collectors and players alike. Whether you’re weaving it into a control build or a midrange deck, Malboro offers both flavor and function, embodying the eerie menace from its Final Fantasy origins while enhancing your Magic: The Gathering experience.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost: {4}{B}{B}
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Card Type: Creature
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Subtypes: Plant Horror
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Card Text: Bad Breath — When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card, loses 2 life, and exiles the top three cards of their library.
Swampcycling 2 ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
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Power / Toughness: 4/4
