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Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer3 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana

Both abilities read like a taunt aimed at exactly one kind of opponent. The evasion clause turns an artifact board against its owner: it is a flat threshold, not a gradient, so once a defending player controls three or more artifacts she simply cannot be blocked, and an artifact-cheating deck tends to present precisely that board state. The attack trigger resolves on the declaration of the attack, before blockers even enter the picture, so the digging is guaranteed the moment you swing rather than contingent on connecting. What comes down is throttled by power, and this is where the design gets specific: at a printed 2, an unbuffed attack only puts artifacts of mana value 2 or less onto the battlefield tapped, which means mana rocks and small utility pieces early, not finishers. Power is the dial, and the card openly invites pumping the 2/4 past its printed size to reach fatter payloads, at which point cheating them into play instead of casting them starts to save real mana. It does not tax opponents or lock down the board the way many white-blue artifact cards do; it accelerates your own artifacts through combat while punishing the defending player for having built the deck it wanted to raid in the first place. A self-reinforcing ramp engine wearing the frame of a modest attacker, with the body doing double duty as both the payload cap and the reason to keep pumping.

Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer (dmc)
DMC · #29rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever Ayesha Tanaka attacks, look at the top four cards of your library. You may put any number of artifact cards with mana value less than or equal to Ayesha Tanaka's power from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Ayesha Tanaka can't be blocked as long as defending player controls three or more artifacts.
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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