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Cunning Survivor

Creature — Human Warrior1 generic manaBlue mana

A 1/3 body that turns your throwaway cards into a clock. Every time a card leaves your hand to cycling or a discard outlet, this Human Warrior grows by a point of power and slips past blockers for the rest of the turn, and because the trigger stacks, a fistful of cycling lands and looting effects can chain into a spike of unblockable damage while the rest of your turn does its usual work. The discipline sits in the toughness, not the power: a 1/3 survives the early board on its own, so the incidental motion of digging, filtering, and sculpting your draws is what converts into reach rather than a dedicated resource cost. It rewards the disposable specifically. The land you pitch on turn four, the spare card you loot away to fix a draw: each one is fuel here, where most graveyard payoffs only care about cards falling in from the library and cycling's card-smoothing rarely translates into pressure at all. The unblockable clause is what lifts this above a mere draw-smoothing curiosity, because the damage does not depend on a clear board. This is deck glue: the payoff that retroactively justifies loading up on the cheap discard and cycling outlets you already wanted for their filtering.

Cunning Survivor (hou)
HOU · #33common
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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