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Draugr Thought-Thief

Creature — Zombie Rogue2 generic manaBlue mana

The mill here is almost incidental: a single card off the top with the option to leave it, and that restraint is the point. This is a body with a rider, not a rider with a body, but the body is deliberately understated. A 3/2 for three is under the vanilla curve, and it is supposed to be: the enters-trigger is what you are actually paying for, and the statline is priced to make room for it. The "may" clause is where the flexibility lives. Against a control opponent you can feed their graveyard a card they wanted to draw; against a graveyard-hungry opponent you decline and keep the information instead. It looks at any player's library, including your own, which turns the same trigger into a self-mill enabler or a disruption piece depending on the shell. That optionality is the whole reason a common with such a small effect finds homes outside the tribe it was printed for. The ability is generic enough to fit any Zombie or Rogue deck, cheap enough to be effectively free once the creature is one you wanted anyway, and modal enough that it does something useful across mirror-inverse gameplans. It is the shape of a synergy piece that survives when the synergy dries up: not because the body carries it, but because a look-and-maybe-mill trigger is rarely dead.

Draugr Thought-Thief (j25)
J25 · #305common
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Normal: $0.11
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card into their graveyard.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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