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Corridor Monitor

Artifact Creature — Construct1 generic manaBlue mana

The untap trigger on a two-mana body looks like combat filler and functions like a combo enabler. Read it as a defensive body and it is a 1/4 that gums up the ground with a minor bonus; read it as a repeatable untap effect stapled to a creature you can flicker or reanimate, and it becomes an engine piece. Untapping a mana rock recovers the mana spent casting it, which is the seed of countless artifact-mana loops; untapping a creature refreshes a tap ability, whether that is a mana dork, a pinger, or something more baroque. The card cares nothing about what it untaps or why, and that indifference is the whole danger in the hands of someone who does. The body deserves note too: 1/4 is a genuinely awkward stat line to attack into, so the construct earns its keep on defense while the value players build toward whatever the untap actually breaks. This is the recurring problem with cheap creatures that carry a fully generic, no-strings enters trigger: designers can price the body honestly, but they cannot price every future card the trigger will be pointed at. A construct that untaps target artifact or creature you control is a blank check written to a combo player, and the interesting part is always the payoff, not the check.

Corridor Monitor (2xm)
2XM · #46common
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, untap target artifact or creature you control.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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