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Cybernetica Datasmith

Artifact Creature — Human Artificer1 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana

The whole card is a Group Hug engine bolted to a coercion device. The activated ability splits its two halves across two different players: one draws, another gets a 4/4 that literally cannot block. That second clause is the pressure valve. Handing an opponent a 4/4 they can only attack with turns the token into a political lever, a threat you point at the table rather than a gift, and the "can't block" tag means the recipient's board grows while their defenses do not. Protection from Robots is the flavor joke made mechanical: a fragile 0/1 artificer who cannot be touched by the very tokens its own ability floods onto the board, keeping the Datasmith itself safe from the arms race they keep escalating. The design lives entirely in that asymmetry. A generic card-draw dork would be a wash; the Datasmith instead forces the table to accept resources and threats in the same breath, and lets the pilot decide who gets which. Its currency is not advantage but obligation: every activation makes someone stronger and someone else nervous, and the person holding the tapper decides which is which. As politics-first design, it treats the multiplayer table as the actual battlefield and the token as a bargaining chip, a narrower and more deliberate job than the mana value suggests.

Cybernetica Datasmith (40k)
40K · #114★rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Protection from Robots Field Reprogramming — Blue mana, Tap: Target player draws a card. Another target player creates a 4/4 colorless Robot artifact creature token with "This token can't block."
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
Legal
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