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I dig this card . It's apart of this deck I got going,but I'm kinda confused how its effects resolve.Here's a example. Say I have 2 1/1 goblins in play via dragon fodder and two hissing iguanars. I bring out my Mycoloth and sac both the goblins doing 4 damage and then sac one of the iguanars for one more and the other for no damage.Is this correct?

What you said was a little confusing but I'll try to uncover what you meant. If you had the two goblins and iguanars and then devoured with the mycoloth, here's what would happen: if you only devoured the two goblins, it would be four damage; if you devoured the two goblins and on iguanar it would be 5 damage; if you devoured all four creatures, it would be 6 damage. You only have one opportunity to sac so those would be your options. make sense?

2 Hissing Iguanar in play, 5 goblins in play (mostly from Dragon Fodder) and then you play Voracious Dragon and sacrifice 5 goblins. Voila. 20 damage :D

This should be 1/3 so it wouldn't die to everything

Incredibly Strong In Draft And You Hate To Have To Use Quality Removal On This Guy But Sometimes You Really Have To Cuz Damage Will Tally Up In No Time With This Lizard

Handy card, but it's low toughtness means you will keep it ourt of combat for it's abilty.
3.0

@ puff, it doesnt work like that, when you play mycloth (or any other devour) you must declare all sacrafices at once, so if you sac the 2 goblins, with 2 of these, that is 4 dmg, if you also sac a lizard, it is 5, if you sac everything, it is 6, but you should know, the lizards are worth keeping around, as next turn, you can get a sizable sting with another devour, 8 dmg if you eat all the saprolings, 12 if you eat the whole board, 16 total, but this also wont happen till turn 6, and you are left with 1 creature, and your "protection" from removal is gone, hello doomblade

this is a nice card to make your opponent wonder about playing its removal, as each creature destroyed would also be a ping back

hmm, lethal swing with their 6 goblin tokens and 2 iguanar, or death pings with my day of judgement (btw, swing =12 damage, WoG = 14 damage in this situation)

has anyone bothered to read the "whenever ANOTHER creature is put into a graveyard" part?
your opponents don't take damage if you devour all your iguanars.

Puff had it right. Only devouring the 5 goblins would cause the Iguanars to do 10 damage (1 per creature per iguanar), then the dragon would do 10 damage because of its enter play effect.

That's actually kinda mean.

can someone post the link to the rule that tokens go to the graveyard? i thought that tokens just leave the table but don't ever hit the graveyard

@kittyspit, when you devour something, everything hits the graveyard at the same time. therefore, if i wrath of god (which kills everything in the same manner) with you having two iguanars and my two leaden myr, i would take a total of 6 damage (three due to one iguanar, three due to the other) because it all happens simultaniusly. the only real way to stop the damage is to stop the activated ability and then kill it.

@codezx- yes, yes it does. ive been hit by it. i still feel charred.

My friend has a couple of these in one of his decks. It's a red-green saproling deck whose whole point is to sacrifice its own creatures (saprolings) to: get mana for huge Disintegrates, pump up his own creatures, and to use them as food for his huge devourers. It's pretty decent and always kills you out of nowhere.

Hissing Iguanar is a great assassin card. 4.5

Snake Umbra.
That's all that needs to be said.

*hissss*

What a great card, though! In a multiplayer game, odds are that his presence on the board will make mass removal a far less appealing option for "that player", if you've got a "that player" in your playgroup. The coolest thing is that he does this for a one-time investment, and he's easy to acquire (as a common) if you want to give him a shot.

4.0. He is more than meets the eye, as far as I'm concerned.

Compare to Prodigal Pyromancer.

Both are {2R} creatures with an ability that lets them deal damage to targets.

Prodigal Pyromancer's ability is activated, while Hissing Iguanar's is triggered -- in this case off of creature death.

This means that while "Tim's" ability has more targeting versatility as well as the fact that it makes better use of the stack because it can be activated, Iguanar's ability may trigger multiple times at points where multiple creatures die, say in combat or from being devoured or otherwise sacrificed. Any targeted/mass removal will cause considerable damage to your opponent.

Finally, while most variations of Prodigal Pyromancer are 1/1 or 0/1, Iguanar is comparatively better overall in combat with a 3/1 body.

That being said, a 3/1 body with no activated abilities for {2R} is a tough sell. However, this could be fun to give Infect via Grafted Exoskeleton or Phyresis in the right deck. "Whenever another creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target player get a poison counter".

Idiot, you left an italics tag open!

Playing Tokens?

The Anti-Board-Wipe Iguanar.

I've opened like 20 Shards of Alara packs.
How have I not seen a single one of these!?

Rage Thrower is a bigger version, but I like this one better. Anti-wrath cards rock.
It is a nice card in that, even without haste, it has an impact on the very next combat phase.

Fits perfects in a burn-control strategy. You burn creatures so your guys can get through. This guy tursn all of that burn into damage to the face at the same time as well, while being a meaty 3 to the face on the attack. He also trades with most 2 and 3 drops while dishing out some damage.

My R/B deck will have to try this guy out. He's also not useless when hit by pacifism and such.

Blood Artist is cheaper with lifegain, this guy has more power, and can remove planeswalkers.