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Damage Control Crew

Creature — Human Citizen3 generic manaGreen mana

The modal enters-the-battlefield trigger is green's way of stapling a second use onto a body you were casting anyway, and both halves here draw from green's oldest wells: Regrowth-style recursion and Naturalize-style disruption, folded into a single fair creature. Repair is recursion with a floor: it reaches back only for cards of mana value 4 or greater, which pushes you past grinding a mana dork and toward returning whatever expensive payoff already hit the yard. Impound is straightforward artifact-or-enchantment exile, the kind of answer green usually pays a full card for. The choice between them is the whole design, and the timing is the wrinkle: because the mode is picked when the trigger goes on the stack after the creature enters, you get to read the board with the 3/3 already present before committing to rebuild or to break something. That is a meaningfully later decision point than a cast trigger would offer, and it is what earns the four mana. Neither mode is strong enough to warrant the card alone; the value is holding both options open until the last responsible moment, then spending one while keeping a serviceable blocker. It reads as a workmanlike toolbox creature, the kind of card that fills the middle of a curve without demanding a slot, useful precisely because it answers two different questions and asks you to choose only once you know which one the game is asking.

Damage Control Crew (spm)
SPM · #99uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, choose one — • Repair — Return target card with mana value 4 or greater from your graveyard to your hand. • Impound — Exile target artifact or enchantment.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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