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Corpse Appraiser

Creature — Vampire RogueBlue manaBlack manaRed mana

Grixis has always struggled to justify a triple-pip commitment on a body this small, and this Vampire Rogue answers by stapling two independent forms of value to one enters-the-battlefield trigger. The graveyard clause is the deckbuilding hinge, but it is a narrow hinge: only a creature card is a legal target, so a graveyard stocked with instants, sorceries, and lands leaves the ability with nothing to grab even when it is far from empty. That restriction is the balancing act. The dig into the top three fires only if a creature card is actually put into exile this way, which turns the trigger into a soft interactive tool (clipping a reanimation target or a delve creature before the opponent can spend it) that pays you off precisely when there is something worth clipping. When it connects, the reward is closer to a small Impulse than a raw draw: one card to hand, the rest into your own graveyard, which quietly restocks the same graveyard-value shell the card wants to live in. The 3/3 frame is incidental; nobody casts this to attack. It runs because a single cast can strip a creature from an opposing yard, refill your hand, and load your own graveyard in one motion, which is the density of return a three-color creature needs to earn a slot in a deck already paying full price on its mana base.

Corpse Appraiser (snc)
SNC · #302uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If a card is put into exile this way, look at the top three cards of your library, then put one of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

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