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Eager Construct

Artifact Creature — Construct2 generic mana

The clever thing about the enters-the-battlefield trigger is that the symmetry was the point: a 2/2 for two with a scry rider that, by handing the same look to every player, almost erases its own advantage. A private scry smooths your draw at no cost to anyone; this one smooths the whole table's. The result is a filter so muted it barely registers as upside, which is exactly the leash a common artifact body of this rate needs to stay harmless. The body is the honest part: a colorless two-drop that slots into any color, plays whatever curve asks for it, and asks nothing of the deck around it. Wherever the real currency is artifact count rather than what the stat line reads, the scry clause fades into background noise and the type line does the work: any deck that wants a cheap Construct gets one, and the each-player symmetry stops mattering because nobody is being asked to value the trigger. Plain enough to be forgettable on rate, generic enough to keep turning up anywhere the deck needs a colorless artifact creature and nothing more specific than that.

Eager Construct (j25)
J25 · #749common
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, each player may scry 1. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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