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Archaeomender

Creature — Human Wizard2 generic manaBlue mana

Blue rarely gets to touch its graveyard, which is exactly why this Wizard exists: it hands artifact-heavy decks a body attached to a Regrowth for their most important metal. The 2/3 frame is deliberately unremarkable, because the value is in the trigger and the trigger is repeatable through any means of blinking or rebuying the creature. Where red and white get artifact recursion as a matter of course, blue's version arrives stapled to a fragile Human Wizard and priced to be a role-player rather than an engine on its own. The target is any artifact card in your graveyard, which quietly widens its use well past mana rocks: a milled equipment, a sacrificed Treasure-maker, a combo piece binned by an opponent's spot removal all come back to hand for a second attempt. It asks the deck around it to generate artifacts worth reclaiming, then makes that reclamation part of a creature-based value loop rather than a dedicated sorcery slot. Nothing flashy, but the design fills a real gap: a creature that lets blue play the artifact-attrition game other colors have long taken for granted.

Archaeomender (jmp)
JMP · #9common
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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