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Destructive Digger

Creature — Goblin2 generic manaRed mana

A 3/2 Goblin priced to swing early, welded to a card-draw outlet that costs more to run than most red decks can afford. The activation is the tell: three generic mana plus a tap plus the sacrifice of an artifact or land, all for a single card. That is a deliberately steep rate, and it points at a specific kind of deck rather than a generic value creature. The sacrifice clause turns spent artifacts, uncracked Clue tokens, and lands you no longer need into fresh cards, so the ability wants a board that manufactures disposable permanents rather than one that would feel the loss. Red's chronic weakness is running out of gas, and the color periodically reaches for a card like this to buy a late-game grind out of an aggressive shell without leaning on blue. The tax is real: three mana for the body, then a heavy ongoing cost that competes with actually casting spells, which stops the engine from being a free win condition in slower matchups. What it offers is a mono-red draw outlet stapled to a creature that still gets in for meaningful damage, a two-mode card that asks whether you are the beatdown or the long game and lets you flip that answer late.

Destructive Digger (j25)
J25 · #133common
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
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Oracle Text

Rules text

3 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice an artifact or land: Draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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