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Avarax

Creature — Beast3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Search-for-itself is the rare design where redundancy lives inside the creature rather than the deck: cast one, fetch the next, and the chain keeps replenishing as long as a copy remains in the library. The trick ran across a cycle of beasts, each tutoring its twin, but the firepower attached here is what sets this one apart. A five-mana 3/3 with haste is a thin body for the cost on its own; the search clause is what converts that thinness into an engine, where every copy you draw guarantees the next, so a deck running the full four rarely runs dry. The 1 generic manaRed mana pump gives the creature something to do with leftover mana, scaling each Avarax into a real threat once the early plays are spent. The structural cost is the one every self-fetching card pays: each cast thins the library by one and pulls another into hand, so any single hit costs more than its stats suggest. You are buying consistency, not raw power. That trade reads as inefficient until you frame the four copies as one recurring threat distributed across the deck, each draw chained to the rest. The fetch is the engine; haste and the pump are what keep that engine from sitting dead on the board.

Avarax (ema)
EMA · #117common
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste When this creature enters, you may search your library for a card named Avarax, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. 1 generic manaRed mana: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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