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Attentive Sunscribe

Artifact Creature — Gnome1 generic manaWhite mana

Most scry effects fire once, on cast or on death: a single glance at the top of the library, then they are spent. This gnome converts scrying into a repeatable resource by hanging it off a tap trigger, which is a subtler design lever than it looks. Any tap counts, not just attacking, so the scry rewards a deck that finds reasons to turn this specific body sideways: crewing a Vehicle, feeding a tap-to-activate cost, convoking a spell, or simply sending it into combat as a plain 2/2. Each of those actions was already worth doing on its own; the scribe attaches a small library-smoothing rebate to whatever tapped it. The artifact-creature type line does quiet work too, letting the body count as fuel for effects that care about artifacts while still attacking and blocking like any other two-drop. The scry is modest in a vacuum, one card of selection each time the creature taps, and the trigger is tied to this single permanent rather than the board at large, so the reward depends on how often you can untap and re-tap it rather than on how wide you go. That is the trade the design makes: a small effect with no built-in per-turn cap, priced for a 2/2, waiting for a shell that can pull its lever more than once between untap steps.

Attentive Sunscribe (lci)
LCI · #4common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Legalities

Format Status

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