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Alms Collector

Creature — Cat Cleric3 generic manaWhite mana

The design trick here is that it does not stop the draw: it redirects the surplus. Any effect that would hand an opponent two or more cards (a big draw spell, a wheel, a group-hug engine, a symmetrical refill) gets clamped to a single card apiece, and you draw a card too instead of the caster. That reframes what would have been a lopsided card advantage swing into parity, then tips parity your way. The flash on a 3/4 body is what makes it a real answer rather than a durdly hatebear: it can be held up as an ambush blocker, dropped in response to a Sphinx's Revelation or a Windfall to blank the payoff, and left on the battlefield to keep taxing draws for the rest of the game. Note the precise shape of the clause: it applies to any draw of two or more, not just card-draw spells, and it applies per instance rather than capping a whole turn, so it punishes the burst but leaves ordinary one-card draw steps untouched. It is a soft-lock rather than a Stax piece, closer in spirit to Aven Mindcensor or Notion Thief than to a resource-denial prison, and it earns its place by turning an opponent's engine into a slow drip while quietly feeding your own hand.

Alms Collector (sld)
SLD · #1227rare
Pricing
Normal: $14.71
Foil: $16.41
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash If an opponent would draw two or more cards, instead you and that player each draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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