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Dimir Infiltrator

Creature — SpiritBlue manaBlack mana

The body and the keyword pull in opposite directions, and that contradiction is the whole point. A 1/3 that can't be blocked is no clock at all (one point a turn barely registers), but guaranteed contact is exactly what some effects want: a saboteur trigger, a graveyard recursion, a discard or mill payload that needs a creature to connect. The unblockable Spirit is therefore a delivery system more than a beater. Its other mode is the search clause, which converts the same slot into a sorcery-speed tutor: pitch the Infiltrator, fetch any other two-mana-value card from your library to hand. The mana-value lock is what keeps that honest, since the keyword only finds cards sharing this one's converted cost. You pay a card and three mana to swap into another two-drop, not to escalate into whatever you please. The payoff for a control or combo shell is variance smoothing without dilution: rather than running a fourth copy of a situational answer, you run a flexible body that doubles as that answer's delivery mechanism, finding the right two-cost spell when the board is stable and presenting an unblockable conduit when it isn't. Holding the fetch to sorcery speed denies the instant-speed silver-bullet that would warp sequencing. That it wears a Dimir face is almost beside the point; the durable idea is a single card that is never strictly a blank, threat and toolbox folded into the same slot.

Dimir Infiltrator (psal)
PSAL · #E4common
Pricing
Normal: $0.56
Foil: $10.79
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked. Transmute 1 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana (1 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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