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Daring Saboteur

Creature — Human Pirate1 generic manaBlue mana

The 2/1 body is the giveaway: this is a creature priced to connect, not to fight. The unblockable activation costs more than the creature did, which is the deliberate friction. You are not meant to make it evasive every turn for free; you pay 2 generic manaBlue mana when the loot is worth more than the mana, and you leave it home when the board says otherwise. The trigger itself is the older half of the design, the looting that Merfolk Looter made a build-around: draw, then discard. Stapling that to evasion solves looting's chronic problem, which is that a Looter taps and does nothing to the board while it digs. This one digs by attacking, so the same card advances your clock and fixes your hand in the same combat step. The discard is not downside so much as the engine's fuel: it wants a graveyard payoff, a flashback spell, a card with a from-the-bin ability, something that makes the thing you pitch worth as much as the thing you draw. As a piloted filtering engine on legs, it asks the deck around it to give the loot a destination, then rewards every uncontested attack with a fresh look and a chance to bin exactly what the graveyard wanted.

Daring Saboteur (plst)
PLST · #NCC-217uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
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Oracle Text

Rules text

2 generic manaBlue mana: This creature can't be blocked this turn. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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