Body Snatcher is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
When this creature enters, exile it unless you discard a creature card. When this creature dies, exile it and return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
How it works : Body Snatcher
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You choose whether to discard a card or not as the enters-the-battlefield ability resolves.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Although you can choose Body Snatcher itself as the target of its last ability, it will be exiled before it can be returned to the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Protean Hulk + Carrion Feeder + Pitiless Plunderer + Blood Artist
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creatureInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Get Protean Hulk killed, triggering its ability.
- 2Get Body Snatcher, Carrion Feeder, and Gravecrawler.
- 3With Body Snatcher's ETB trigger on the stack, sacrifice it to Carrion Feeder, getting back Protean Hulk for its death trigger.
- 4Sacrifice Hulk to Carrion Feeder, triggering its ability.
- 5Get Pitiless Plunderer and Blood Artist.
- 6Sacrifice Gravecrawler to Carrion Feeder, giving it a +1/+1 counter, pinging an opponent with Blood Artist, and creating a treasure token.
- 7Cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard using the created treasure token.
- 8Repeat steps 6 and 7 to ping your opponent to death.
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#2
Protean Hulk + Body Snatcher + Viscera Seer + Murderous Redcap
Infinite damageInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Get Protean Hulk killed, triggering its ability.
- 2Get Body Snatcher and Viscera Seer.
- 3With Body Snatcher's ETB trigger on the stack, sacrifice it to Viscera Seer, getting back Protean Hulk for its death trigger.
- 4Sacrifice Hulk to Viscera Seer, triggering its ability.
- 5Get Murderous Redcap and Melira.
- 6Murderous Redcap ETB ability triggers, dealing 2 damage to an opponent.
- 7Sacrifice Murderous Redcap to Viscera Seer, bringing it back with persist.
- 8Melira prevents a -1/-1 counter from being put on Murderous Redcap.
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Protean Hulk + Carrion Feeder + Phyrexian Delver + Body Snatcher
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite lifegainInfinite lifegain triggers
- 1Get Protean Hulk killed, triggering its ability.
- 2Get Phyrexian Delver and Carrion Feeder.
- 3Phyrexian Delver ETB triggers, bring back Protean Hulk to play.
- 4Sacrifice Protean Hulk to Carrion Feeder, triggering it's ability.
- 5Get Body Snatcher and Blood Artist.
- 6Body Snatcher ETB triggers, hold priority and sacrifice it to Carrion Feeder, triggering its death trigger.
- 7Bring back Protean Hulk to play, Body Snatcher ETB resolves.
- 8Sacrifice Protean Hulk to Carrion Feeder, triggering it's ability.
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#4
Flash + Protean Hulk + Body Snatcher + Laboratory Maniac
Win the game
- 1Cast Flash, putting Protean Hulk on the battlefield, choosing not to pay and sacrificng Protean Hulk.
- 2Protean Hulk's LTB triggers, searching your library for Body Snatcher, Viscera Seer and Torch Courier and putting them onto the battlefield.
- 3In response to Body Snatcher's ETB trigger, activate Viscera Seer sacrificing Body Double.
- 4Body Snatcher's LTB triggers, exiling Body Snatcher and returning Protean Hulk to the battlefield.
- 5Resolve the Viscera Seer ability, scrying 1.
- 6Resolve the Body Snatcher ETB, failing to discard a card.
- 7Activate Viscera Seer, sacrificing Protean Hulk, searching your library for Laboratory Maniac, Hermit Druid and Hapless Researcher, then putting them onto the battlefield.
- 8Activate Torch Courier, sacrificing itself and giving Hermit Druid haste.
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Legal formats
legacyvintagepennycommanderoathbreakerduelpremodernpredh
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