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Doombot Harbinger

Artifact Creature — Robot Villain2 generic manaBlack mana

The self-milling reanimator has always had to solve one problem: filling the graveyard is easy, but getting the payoff to line up with the fuel is where the archetype's engines wobble. This one folds both halves into a single body. The entry mill loads the yard; the death trigger cashes it back out, exiling itself to return a creature you dumped there on the way in. That symmetry is why the small, cheap frame works: a 2/1 flier trades or chumps freely, and every time it dies it converts a milled creature into a card in hand, so the recursion is priced into the body rather than bolted onto a separate spell. The exile-on-death clause is the discipline here. Because returning the target requires the card to remove itself, there is no infinite recursion loop and no permanent value engine; you get one conversion per copy, then it is gone. That keeps the effect honest for an ability that would otherwise stack too cleanly with blink and sacrifice loops. The flying is not decoration either: it makes the 2/1 an evasive attacker that dies on its own terms rather than sitting back, and a flier that wants to trade suits a reanimation shell perfectly, because such a shell is happy to throw the same body away twice.

Doombot Harbinger (msc)
MSC · #655uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.56
Foil: $0.67
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, you may mill four cards. (You may put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.) When this creature dies, you may exile this card. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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