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Dispersal Technician

Creature — Vedalken Artificer4 generic manaBlue mana

The bounce points the wrong way, and that mismatch is the design. The obvious read is that you return your own artifact to reset its enters-the-battlefield trigger, but the return fires only once, when the technician itself enters, so the body makes a clumsy engine for that loop unless something else keeps flickering or recasting it. What the optional return actually rewards is aiming across the table: pitching an opponent's resolved artifact back to their hand to buy a turn of tempo, or shuffling around a token-making construct when the timing lines up. A 3/2 for five is a soft, expensive frame for a one-shot return, and that ratio is the tell. This was built as a midrange artifact-deck body, not a tuned constructed piece; the sharper enablers in blue's artifact lineage sit on cheaper or harder-hitting creatures, where the trigger can chain off repeated blinks or the body can actually pressure life totals. The honest read is that the card fills a narrow slot: a blue artifact shell that wants a repeatable-feeling reset for its best permanent when paired with a flicker or recursion effect, and otherwise a creature that trades a turn of tempo for an opposing artifact.

Dispersal Technician (plst)
PLST · #AER-32common
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Normal: $0.25
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may return target artifact to its owner's hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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Other printings

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