Cryptic Annelid

Scry as a keyword first arrived bundled into other effects, but here it is the whole point: a single enters trigger that fires scry 1, then scry 2, then scry 3, sifting the top of your library in escalating chunks. The staggered structure is doing real work that a flat "scry 6" would not. Each step resolves separately, so you commit to keeping or bottoming the first card before you see what the next two offer, then resolve those before the final three. The information arrives in waves, and so does the decision: you are filtering with imperfect knowledge at every stage rather than sorting the whole stack at once. It is a deliberately fiddlier read than a single big scry, and it rewards knowing your own deck cold. The 1/4 body is the tax: enough toughness to survive a few turns of relevance, never enough to threaten anything, which is correct for a card whose entire value is the selection it provides on arrival. This is library manipulation as a creature first and a blocker a distant second, a design that treats the scry mechanic not as a rider but as the reason to cast the spell at all.