Orcish Squatters
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Fifth Edition5ED · #258
- Card type
- Creature — Orc
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.59 € · 0.33 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may gain control of target land defending player controls for as long as you control this creature. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Richard Kane Ferguson
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1997-03-24
Rulings
The ability triggers on the declaration of blockers if no blockers are declared for it.
If you lose control of Orcish Squatters before its ability resolves, you won’t gain control of the targeted land at all.
An ability that triggers when something “attacks and isn’t blocked” triggers in the declare blockers step after blockers are declared if (1) that creature is attacking and (2) no creatures are declared to block it. It will trigger even if that creature was put onto the battlefield attacking rather than having been declared as an attacker in the declare attackers step.
