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can someone explain to me why this creatures ability doesn't kill it?

@Forgeling: Rule 704.4 from the comprehensive rule book.

704.4. Unlike triggered abilities, state-based actions pay no attention to what happens during the resolution of a spell or ability.
Example: A player controls a creature with the ability "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand" and casts a spell whose effect is "Discard your hand, then draw seven cards." The creature will temporarily have toughness 0 in the middle of the spell's resolution but will be back up to toughness 7 when the spell finishes resolving. Thus the creature will survive when state-based actions are checked. In contrast, an ability that triggers when the player has no cards in hand goes on the stack after the spell resolves, because its trigger event happened during resolution.

The flavor text here is the bee's knees.

I don't see why its rated so high. The art is probably the only good thing about it.

1d6 pun damage. No save.

Oh wow, I just read the flavor text on this card for the first time. Hahah that is too good.

Is that The Thing?

@Zulp yeah that's all that's left after the creature ate the rest of the bee

That's actually the flavor text.
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I want some more terrible pun cards like Werebear.

Amusing card, but it always urks me when they clearly have shapeshifters that, by name alone, should also be oozes. Plasm is an ooze term!

Channel, anyone?

I think I still like Superman better. But still pretty cool.

Flavor text writers never saw a bad pun they didn't like.

Looks an awful lot like Shape of the Wiitigo. It's the same artist, but really now ..

would be a lot better with the all creature types feature of newer shapeshifters.

Give it undying. Suddenly: "Oh, you're killing my huge blocker? I'll tap it in response and pay, oh, 0 for X. He's coming back with 3 counters and your kill fizzles. And now I do believe I'll pay some mana to make it bigger again. Problem?"