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Corpse Augur

Creature — Zombie Wizard3 generic manaBlack mana

The death trigger is where the value lives, and it reads the wrong graveyard on purpose. Where most black card-draw engines mine your own resources (Phyrexian Arena taxes your life total, Skullclamp loops your own bodies), this one counts creature cards in a target player's graveyard, so it scales off whoever has been losing creatures fastest. At a grindy table that has been trading bodies all game, it can refund a fistful of cards, with the life you pay scaling one-for-one against the draw so the refuel never comes free. The 4/2 body makes the engine fire on its own schedule: fragile enough to die in nearly any combat, small enough that nobody minds blocking it, so the trigger is rarely far away. That fragility is the design's quiet cleverness. A sturdier body would be a worse card here, because the whole point is to convert death into cards, and the easiest death to arrange is the one your opponents do for you. Pair it with a free sacrifice outlet and the toughness stops mattering entirely; you choose the moment, point the trigger at the fullest graveyard, and turn a creature stalemate into a refuel. Black draw-on-death effects have long asked you to spend life for resources, but the targeted, graveyard-scaling clause is what turns a fragile 4/2 into a payoff that grows the longer the game grinds.

Corpse Augur (c17)
C17 · #106uncommon
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Normal: $0.30
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard.
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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