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Digsite Conservator

Artifact Creature — Gnome2 generic mana

Graveyard hate that pays you back for spending it. Most dedicated yard interaction is a single-use liability: you exile the pile, and now you own a body doing nothing or a spent artifact idling on the table. This one folds the answer into a value engine on both ends. The sacrifice ability is the reactive half, a sorcery-speed strike that scoops up to four cards from a single graveyard, enough to break a flashback pile or strand a reanimation target before it comes back. The death trigger is where the structure gets clever: whether you crack it yourself or let it die in combat, you can pay four more and discover 4, converting a piece of interaction into a fresh spell off the top. That inverts the usual incentive around hatebears. Instead of hoarding the effect, you want to spend the creature, disrupt the opponent, and collect the card-advantage refund on the way out. Discover 4 caps what it can hit, so the payoff is a mid-curve cast rather than a bomb, but the same ceiling means the exile rarely bleeds tempo across a long game. A hate piece that hands you a free cast when it dies is doing something structurally different from the exile-a-graveyard staples it competes with: those trade a card for a card, and this one is built to come out ahead.

Digsite Conservator (lci)
LCI · #252uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.07
Oracle Text

Rules text

Sacrifice this creature: Exile up to four target cards from a single graveyard. Activate only as a sorcery. When this creature dies, you may pay 4 generic mana. If you do, discover 4. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
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
Legal
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