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Dream Trawler

Creature — Sphinx2 generic manaWhite manaWhite manaBlue manaBlue mana

A control finisher built to close every door at once. The design problem with a six-mana top-end in a slow deck is that you draw it in the games where you are already ahead and you never draw it when you are getting run over: it is either a win-more card or a dead card. This Sphinx answers that by folding attack, protection, and card advantage into a single body. The attack trigger refills your hand, which feeds the draw-triggered pump, which turns a 3/5 into a real clock while the lifelink pulls you out of burn range on the swing. The hexproof activation is what makes it stick: for the cost of a card you already have too many of in a control shell, it dodges targeted removal and taps itself, so the protection is priced against your own tempo rather than given away free. What emerges is a finisher that is nearly impossible to answer at parity, since spot removal bounces off the discard shield and mass removal is the only clean out, but one that also stabilizes a board you are losing thanks to the flying lifelink body. The tension it resolves is the oldest one in control: a threat that is both hard to interact with and hard to race, without asking the deck to change what it does before turn six.

Dream Trawler (prm)
PRM · #79901rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.33
Foil: $0.68
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, lifelink Whenever you draw a card, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever this creature attacks, draw a card. Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

4 sets
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