If you control a creature with power less than 0, use its actual power when calculating the total power of creatures you control. For example, if you control three creatures with powers 4, 5, and -2, the total power of creatures you control is 7.
Some formidable abilities are activated abilities that require creatures you control to have total power 8 or greater. Once you activate these abilities, it doesn’t matter what happens to the total power of creatures you control.
Activating Lurking Arynx’s ability doesn’t force you to attack with it that turn. If it doesn’t attack, the creatures affected by its ability can block other attacking creatures or not block at all.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from DTK — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #192 of *Dragons of Tarkir*, the set that shipped alongside the March 2015 Dragons of Tarkir release.
Card type: Creature — Cat Beast, color identity green, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {4}{G} (5 converted). Keyword abilities: Formidable.
Legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #29,207 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Carl Frank. Rarix catalogs 53 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Carl Frank
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Other formidable abilities are triggered abilities with an “intervening ‘if’” clause. Such abilities check the total power of creatures you control twice: once at the appropriate time to see if the ability will trigger, and again as the ability tries to resolve. If, at that time, the total power of creatures you control is no longer 8 or greater, the ability will have no effect.
You may activate Lurking Arynx’s ability multiple times in a turn to force multiple creatures to block it if able.
If a creature affected by Lurking Arynx’s ability can’t legally block it (perhaps because Lurking Arynx has gained flying), that creature can block other attacking creatures or not block at all.
If, during the declare blockers step, a creature is tapped or is affected by a spell or ability that says it can’t block, it doesn’t block. If there’s a cost associated with having a creature block, its controller isn’t forced to pay that cost, so it doesn’t have to block in that case either.
