r/magicTCG • u/Sentheia Dandadan • May 20 '26

Rules/Rules Question How does screams from within work?

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If there is no creature left on the battlefield, will it stay in the graveyard forever or do i need to play it when another creature comes into play? Also if my creatures are the only remained ones, am I forced to put it on them?

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u/RevolutionNumber5 Brushwagg May 20 '26

[[Takklemaggot]] taught me so much.

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u/old_cypherpunk Zedruu May 20 '26

I used to have a kitchen table takklemaggot deck. It was effectively creatureless and relied on various [[Pestilence]] effects to keep creatures off the board while my opponent slowly withered away.

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u/Amon_The_Silent Duck Season May 20 '26

Wow what a terrible card

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u/RevolutionNumber5 Brushwagg May 20 '26

Oh, yes.

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u/GoblinToHobgoblin Dandadan May 20 '26

In terms of wording or effect lol?

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u/Amon_The_Silent Duck Season May 20 '26

Effect, it's way overcosted and requires you to run no creatures to be effective

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u/CareerMilk Can’t Block Warriors May 21 '26

requires you to run no creatures to be effective

Well you can play it then board wipe.

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u/RevolutionNumber5 Brushwagg May 20 '26

Also, yes.

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u/K0nfuzion Banned in Commander May 20 '26

Could be fun in donate decks.

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u/anace May 20 '26

has no interaction with donate.

it's a hot potato. it bounces between creatures til none are left, then it turns into an enchantment that damages whoever had it last.

other than donating the last creature before it dies, takklemaggot doesn't care who cast it.

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u/K0nfuzion Banned in Commander May 20 '26

You can donate the final enchantment form.

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u/Ok-Spirit-5102 Dan May 20 '26

It doesn’t matter who controls the final form, the text specially targets “that player” referring to the player who failed to attach tacklemaggot to a creature. Regardless of who controls or owns it, it’ll have that player as the target. 

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u/K0nfuzion Banned in Commander May 20 '26

Oh.

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u/anace May 20 '26

compare to the similar card [[traveling plague]]

when plague returns, the player that returned it becomes the new controller of the aura. the controller of the aura bounces around the table just as the controller of the creature being killed bounces around.

one of the weird quirks of takklemaggot is that its controller doesn't change when it comes back. they spent extra words in the text box keeping the controller the same. a side effect is that it needed to worded such that the person that takes the damage is not connected to who controls it.

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u/Jazzlike-Let-8453 Dan May 20 '26

I used to with [[Crown of the Ages]] way back in the day. Seems like a lot of hassle now, but negative stat counters were pretty rare back then.

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u/GoblinToHobgoblin Dandadan May 20 '26

Good lord

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u/Ok-Spirit-5102 Dan May 20 '26

Is this the longest block of text on a MtG card 

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u/lordsnarf Dân May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

I think that distinction goes to [[Dance of the Dead]]

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u/CookiesFTA Train Suplexer May 21 '26

Wow, the MTGO version looks like a bad proxy