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Acolyte of Affliction

Creature — Human Cleric2 generic manaBlack manaGreen mana

The self-milling body that turns your graveyard into a permanent-recursion engine. The mill-two on entry is not the payoff here, it is fuel: the trigger stocks the yard, then invites you to pull something back, and the return clause is deliberately wide. Any permanent card qualifies, which means a fetched land, a stranded planeswalker, a dead enchantment, or a creature that already got its value out of the graveyard. That breadth is the design's point. Most graveyard recursion is fenced by card type: Raise Dead and its kin only reach creatures, and the loam-style effects that rebuy lands do exactly that and nothing else. Here the entire "permanent" category is on the table, asked for nothing more than that you have already put something there. The two-mill order matters too: it happens first, so the card you mill this turn can be the card you return, letting a self-mill deck use the body as a controlled digging tool rather than a gamble. The 2/3 frame is honest about what it is: a mid-curve blocker whose stats are an afterthought to the trigger, priced so the recursion does not come for free. It rewards decks already built around a full graveyard, where every card fed to the mill is a card you might get to spend twice.

Acolyte of Affliction (thb)
THB · #206uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, mill two cards, then you may return a permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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