A-Stitched Assistant

Exploit was always a self-sacrifice tax dressed up as an option: the payoff only pays if you feed it a body, and the interesting exploit cards are the ones that make that trade profitable rather than merely legal. Here the trade is card advantage. Sacrifice something whose value is already spent (a token, a creature whose enters-the-battlefield trigger has fired, or the Assistant itself in a pinch), and you dig two deep with scry before replacing the exploited body with a fresh card. The Alchemy rebalance signaled by the A- prefix reads as a rate adjustment, not a redesign: the shape is a two-drop that trades its own board presence for smoothing and a draw. What makes it play well is the scry-then-draw ordering. You see two cards, arrange or bury them, then draw, which means the scry is doing genuine selection work on the very card you are about to take rather than just tidying up future turns. That sequencing is the whole reason to run a body that would otherwise be a fragile 2/1: it turns a moment of sacrifice into a moment of filtering. But the exploit trigger fires once, on the turn it enters, so this is a single high-quality cantrip stapled to a creature, not an engine; the payoff is front-loaded into that one cast. It is a builder's piece, valuable to a deck already interested in putting creatures in the graveyard, and unremarkable outside one.