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Auriok Survivors

Creature — Human Soldier5 generic manaWhite mana

Reanimation that targets the gear instead of the wearer, which is a quieter trick than it sounds. Most graveyard recursion in white pulls back creatures; this one digs into the Equipment pile, returns a piece to the battlefield, and offers to bolt it onto the 4/6 body that just arrived. The free attach is the part doing the work: equip costs are paid only at sorcery speed and out of your mana, so skipping that step and arriving with a blade already strapped on is real tempo, not just card advantage. A 4/6 is a respectable defensive frame, hard to trade with in combat and awkward to burn out, so handing it a piece of game-ending steel turns a stabilizing blocker into a finisher in the same trigger. The catch is the supply problem: Equipment is sticky, it survives the death of whatever was holding it, so your graveyard only fills with the stuff when the artifacts themselves get destroyed, discarded, or milled. That makes this a recursion engine waiting on a specific kind of attrition, one that grinds at the gear and not just the bodies. The 6 mana value is the brake, since you are paying full retail for the frame, the recursion, and a built-in equip rolled into one cast. It points at the rare board state where the most valuable card in your yard is not a creature at all but the weapon they were holding.

Auriok Survivors (nph)
NPH · #3uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may return target Equipment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you do, you may attach it to this creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
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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