My friend has a Mono-black Sac-control deck with at least three of this guy. Trust me, in a deck like that, this guy can get huge quick.
Gaussgoat
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
This card can be utterly devastating; a very solid threat for black.
Uhhsam
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
so the 'flavor' idea here is that this guy eats dead bodies (creatures entering graveyard from play), and they are 'exiled' while they are being chewed in his mouth. you can then have him swallow one of them, which he excretes back into the graveyard, and gains a temporary 'nutritional' boost from them.
but then you're still allowed to re-animate them. maybe it would make more sense if they were re-exiled, but then his ability would take another paragraph to explain.
Quince42
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Anybody know any combos with this guy?
Dark_Bryne
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Works well against anything that wants creatures to enter the graveyard from the battlefield, such as Rockslide and friends or Quest for the Gravelord.
Dynamic_Reversist
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Quince, you were wondering a combo for this card? Try Unearth creatures. Both the Unearth effect and Void Maw's ability are replacement clauses, so you can choose which one you want to abide by. This means you can unearth the same creatures turn after turn, by exiling them with Void Maw, then spitting them back out before your next turn.
Admittedly, this is unwieldy, cumbersome, and fragile, but still a fun casual tactic, especially with the lower casting Unearth creatures, as you can toss out several each turn.
IshubarashI
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
One of my first (powerful) creatures. My first deck was monoblack and some kid my play group knew bought a ton of random cards for like $35 on ebay and he was just kind of giving us random cards. I saw this, and not knowing much at the time I was like "this thing looks cool, oh it's a 4/5 awesome" *snatch*
Later on I realized how good of a deal I got, this thing is a beast in the right deck. Stops gravepact/reanimation decks cold, and after he's been out a while he has the ability to become gigantic any time I desire. I love being able to control something like that.
XxKintaxX
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
use with Gutless Ghoul to sac a creature, gain health and buff up void maw. Then use whatever you want to bring back the other creatures. Super deadly combo!! I use it in my Zombie deck and when it works, I can end a game In a turn or two.
aPimpNamedEmrakul
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Oracle: Cards exiled with Void Maw that would go to the graveyard but have that replaced by an effect such as Leyline of the Void are considered new objects. This means they will lose any counters on them.
LOL WUT? Is this Oubliettesville where exiled creatures keep their counters (and Auras?)
metalevolence
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
should have been
DerStrudelkopf
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
really fun in a living end/living death deck... get him out early, and keep your opponents' graveyards empty, and when everything on the board gets sac'ed, everything but this guy gets exiled. And if I'm not mistaken, you can pump him with the creatures that were exiled before he died after you bring him back, as they are still cards "removed from the game with Void Maw".
Superllama12
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I lurv this card, I had a Timmy moment when I saw him. Although I do not like his tongue being a giant hot dog with vanilla frosting...
majinara
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This guy ain't overpowered or tournament quality or something, but very solid.
I have him often in my EDH/Commander decks or other decks for slow multipalyer formats where recursion rules. Also people quickly forget how huge that thing can suddenly become, and it tramples too. :)
Edit: and one of the best aspects of this card is, that it stops creatures from triggering "when this enters the graveyard" effects. Like, solemn simulacrum draws it's controller no cards, sundering titan destroys no lands (when it dies), rukh egg doesn't create a token, grave pact doesn't force people to sac stuff, and so on.
Tanaka348
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
It's amusing how much the second ability has been shortened by terminology changes.
Vedalken_Arbiter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Can you use this to cheat Unearth creatures back into the yard?
Nip_Gwyllion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh, hey Kog'Maw, what are you doing here?
Appleseed000
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
hmmmmm, late game Plague Wind and finish off your opponent? Sounds fun :3
Pure gold in multiplayer. Let a your opponents ram into each other a couple times or a Magus of the Abyss act for a round and suddenly you have a 14/15 trampler pointed at someone's face. Also ultra-tech in Sedris, the Traitor King EDH.
Dabir
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The reason it mentions counters is likely because of Suspend, though I can't see any card that would be able to put time counters on an exiled card that didn't already have any. They all want the card to be "suspended".
702.60b A card is "suspended" if it's in the exile zone, has suspend, and has a time counter on it.
If they don't already have time counters, there's no card that would let you put them on. HOWEVER, if you did manage to have Void Maw eat a creature with Suspend, put time counters on it, then poop it back out while Leyline of the Void was around, it would lose any time counters it still had since it technically just left exile and returned to it instead of hitting the yard.
XaiviarNightwing
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Necrotic ooze and any exile from grave: enter ability here card.
Kirbster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's not every creature that has both male and female genitalia on its face.
for , Void Maw gets +2/+2 every turn for each other nontoken creature permanent you have out other than Void Maw and Champion of Stray Souls so long as that many creatures also exist in your graveyard simulateously. Just use Void Maw to unexile them all as you swing in so they are available for the next turn.
for further power, you have to get more creatures to sac with accompanying creatures already in your graveyard. Alternatively,after claiming your +2/+2's, use Magewright's Stone and for you get to use the combo again for double the +2/+2's.
Personally i think this combo is dark and twisted and breaks the laws of thermodynamics on so many levels. (entropy violations come to mind)
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but then you're still allowed to re-animate them. maybe it would make more sense if they were re-exiled, but then his ability would take another paragraph to explain.
Admittedly, this is unwieldy, cumbersome, and fragile, but still a fun casual tactic, especially with the lower casting Unearth creatures, as you can toss out several each turn.
Later on I realized how good of a deal I got, this thing is a beast in the right deck. Stops gravepact/reanimation decks cold, and after he's been out a while he has the ability to become gigantic any time I desire. I love being able to control something like that.
LOL WUT? Is this Oubliettesville where exiled creatures keep their counters (and Auras?)
I have him often in my EDH/Commander decks or other decks for slow multipalyer formats where recursion rules. Also people quickly forget how huge that thing can suddenly become, and it tramples too. :)
Edit: and one of the best aspects of this card is, that it stops creatures from triggering "when this enters the graveyard" effects. Like, solemn simulacrum draws it's controller no cards, sundering titan destroys no lands (when it dies), rukh egg doesn't create a token, grave pact doesn't force people to sac stuff, and so on.
Also ultra-tech in Sedris, the Traitor King EDH.
702.60b A card is "suspended" if it's in the exile zone, has suspend, and has a time counter on it.
If they don't already have time counters, there's no card that would let you put them on. HOWEVER, if you did manage to have Void Maw eat a creature with Suspend, put time counters on it, then poop it back out while Leyline of the Void was around, it would lose any time counters it still had since it technically just left exile and returned to it instead of hitting the yard.
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for further power, you have to get more creatures to sac with accompanying creatures already in your graveyard. Alternatively,after claiming your +2/+2's, use Magewright's Stone and for
Personally i think this combo is dark and twisted and breaks the laws of thermodynamics on so many levels. (entropy violations come to mind)