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Aminatou, Veil Piercer

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard1 generic manaWhite manaBlue manaBlack mana

Miracle was built to reward the draw step, and it always came with a catch: the card had to be the first you drew that turn, and you were at the mercy of what your deck handed you. This flips that machinery around. The upkeep surveil is not just card selection; it is a loading mechanism that resolves in the same turn as its payoff, letting you set an enchantment in the exact position your draw step will hit moments later. Surveil at the beginning of upkeep, seat the enchantment for delivery, then draw it as the first card of the turn: the reveal is no longer a gamble but a play you engineered inside a single turn cycle. The 4 generic mana reduction lives entirely in that draw. The miracle window is unforgiving: an enchantment already stranded in hand missed its discount and pays full price. So the engine does not change how you sequence cards you are holding; it changes which cards you want waiting for you, converting card-advantage tension into a sculpting problem. Expensive auras, sagas, and enchantment creatures that would otherwise sit uncastable arrive cheap when they come off a draw you arranged. The 2/4 body is incidental, sized to survive long enough to run the loop. What lifts this past a graveyard filter is that it converts a mechanic historically defined by luck into one defined by sequencing, handing deterministic setup to a player willing to execute the upkeep-to-draw play the shuffle used to govern.

Aminatou, Veil Piercer (dsc)
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Pricing
Normal: $0.62
Foil: $0.37
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Each enchantment card in your hand has miracle. Its miracle cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by 4 generic mana. (You may cast a card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
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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