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CardName: Grizzled Janitor Cost: w Type: Creature - Human Sponge Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: You may cast Grizzled Janitor during your cleanup step, but not at any other time. (You can't cast spells during the cleanup step unless a triggered ability or state-based action takes place at that time.) Flavour Text: "Cleanup in aisle...oh, to hell with it." Set/Rarity: SM Joke Card Dump Uncommon |
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As neat an idea as this is, there's a reason you don't see cards playing around with stuff like the cleanup step.
I'm a big fan of the creature type line. I'm also trying to imagine the easiest way to sneak this guy into play. For a second, I thought I came up with the only reason, ever, to play Delif's Cone, but it turns out that that card says "this turn", and I'm pretty sure I want "until end of turn".
Thawing Glaciers is the most straightforward way to invoke the cleanup step with minimal cost. If you have too many cards in hand and discard Basking Rootwalla, that works too, but it's pretty rare for that situation to come up.
You could also throw away something like Parapet during your upkeep or end step (note that it specifically has to be your turn), but all the other cards like that are Auras that demand a creature, and you end up spending 3 mana and 2 cards for a 3/3: not really eventful.
Hmm... More likely that you're going to get away with Giant Growth your opponent's creature, then end the turn. But if you can do that, your opponent has a creature, you have 2 mana, and you're throwing away a card. Strangely balanced. Could possibly be bigger... except playing multiple would throw it out of whack.
Just Giant Growth isn't going to get you priority in cleanup unless the act of removing the +3/+3 kills it (and normally in that case, that would mean the creature was dead beforehand, so you couldn't even drop Giant Growth on it).
An example of how you could incur this is: you attack with Tel-Jilad Fallen (3/1 infect), they block with a 2/2, and you Giant Growth their creature for some reason (when you could have just pumped yours). Their creature will be 5/5 plus three -1/-1 counters until end of turn, when the Giant Growth wearing off will reduce its toughness below 0 and haul it off to the graveyard. Then you get priority, and you've ended up trading Tel-Jilad Fallen and Giant Growth for the opportunity to play a 1-mana 3/3.
Ah. Yes. To quote you: "There's a reason you don't see cards playing around with stuff like the cleanup step."
Hitting a Giant Growthed X/1 with a -1/-1 counter feels like the most straightforward way to get a cleanup step for me. Spike Soldier will also do it on his own, as would the Starcraft Marine card which goes something like "Put a -1/-1 counter on ~: ~ gets +2/+2 UEOT."
Primal Forcemage may also be useful; he was the key to the combo I assembled to win via infinite cleanup steps.