A.I.M. Synthoids

The value here is defensive, not offensive: a 1/3 stops most early aggressors dead and asks to trade up rather than swing. That toughness-heavy body is the pairing that makes the enters-the-battlefield surveil matter, because it buys the time to spend the graveyard filling on something. Surveil is a soft version of digging: unlike a hard mill or a plain scry, it lets you bin cards you actively want in the yard while keeping the rest ordered on top, so the single trigger reads two different ways depending on the deck. In a shell that rewards a stocked graveyard (delve, flashback, reanimation fodder), the surveil is the point and the blocker is the delivery mechanism. In a deck that just wants to hit land drops and dig, it smooths draws and holds the ground while doing it. What keeps the card grounded is that the surveil fires once, on entry, with no way to rebuy it short of blinking or recasting: it is a one-time selection stapled to a wall, not an engine. That is a deliberately modest design, a blocker with a rider that quietly improves whatever else you are doing, the kind of clean, low-cost utility that fills out the common tier of a set without demanding a build-around.