Lhurgoyf

Lhurgoyf is an all-color creature type used for cards that depict large, reptilian creatures, with distinctive elongated limbs and large, toothed mouths. Lhurgoyf are primarily scavengers. They come in a wide variety of shapes depending on their scavenged sustenance of choice.
==History==
The first card to bear the creature type was the classical <c>Lhurgoyf</c> in Ice Age. Lhurgoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Odyssey followed up with a cycle of Lhurgoyfs: these rare creatures' power and toughness were equal the number of cards of a given related card type to its colour in all graveyards, and each had an ability common to its color. <c>Cantivore</c> (white, empowered by enchantments, has vigilance), <c>Cognivore</c> (blue, instants, flying), <c>Mortivore</c> (black, creatures, regeneration), <c>Magnivore</c> (red, sorceries, haste) and <c>Terravore</c> (green, lands, trample). Magnivore and Mortivore were reprinted in 9th Edition.
More Lhurgoyfs were printed in Planar Chaos (<c>Detritivore</c>) and Future Sight (<c>Tarmogoyf</c>). While Magnivore had seen tournament play, Tarmogoyf's efficiency became a benchmark for creature power in non-rotating formats for more than a decade, and its legacy eclipsed that of the original Llurgoyfs, as most references to "Goyfs" now associate the name and type with multiple card types. It had a reputation for being the strongest creature ever, and test card <c>Chimney Goyf</c> paid it homage by merging it with one of the weakest creatures ever (<c>Chimney Imp</c>).
Lhurgoyfs returned in Modern Horizons 2, which saw the printing of <c>Altar of the Goyf</c> as the first card to mechanically care about the Lhurgoyf creature type and the first Kindred Lhurgoyf (named Tribal at the time), a card type first referenced on Tarmogoyf. A new goyf was also included in <c>Necrogoyf</c>.
Dominaria United featured <c>Urborg Lhurgoyf</c>, the first goyf in more than one color, and the first to only care about your own graveyard. The MH3 Commander deck Graveyard Overdrive featured a minor Lhurgoyf theme and the first cards to create Lhurgoyf tokens: <c>Disa the Restless</c> and <c>Tarmogoyf Nest</c>. It also included three new monocolored lhurgoyfs which all scale using the same ability as Tarmogoyf (, , and ). Modern Horizons 3 also had , a lhurgoyf more aggressively costed than Tarmogoyf and with built-in recursion, but at the cost of considering only its controller's graveyard when setting its power and toughness.
Modern Horizons 3 introduced the first Lhurgoyf kindred Aura in <c>Tarmogoyf Nest</c>.
==Storyline ==
Lhurgoyfs spread across Dominaria during the Ice Age, when they adapted to dwindling food resources by developing a carrion-based diet.Pete Venters (July 1998). "Dominian FAQ" The Duelist #27, p.34. After the weather warmed, they migrated north and are now found in the plane's arctic Northland.
Cantivores derive power from magical energy, while Magnivores derive theirs from emotions. Tarmogoyfs are omnivorous lhurgoyfs capable of metabolizing a variety of creatures and magics. The scourge of any food chain they encounters, tarmogoyfs' musculatures thrive on a diverse diet.
By the time of the New Phyrexian invasion, at least one lhurgoyf was to be found in Urborg.
==Trivia==
*The original Lhurgoyf inspired several designs: , , and .
*Due to the remarkable speed at which <c>Tarmogoyf</c> could grow and its performance in top-tier decks,Pro Tour–Valencia Qualifying Season: Top 8 Decklists it became a much sought-after card.
*Decks featuring Tarmogoyf are known as Goyf-decks.
*The "Lhurgoyf" ability (This creature's power and toughness are equal to the number of cards in your/all graveyards) nowadays is primary in green, secondary in black and tertiary in white, blue, and red.
*The name "Lhurgoyf" doesn't mean anything. It was made up by the Ice Age team because it "sounded Scandinavian."
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