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Erudite Wizard

Creature — Human Wizard2 generic manaBlue mana

A 2/3 that grows every time you overdraw, and the design's cleverness is in which draw it watches. Not any draw, not the draw step, but the second card each turn: the game's cleanest shorthand for "you are doing something beyond your natural draw." A single extra draw per turn feeds it, the counter it hands out is permanent, and only one counter lands no matter how many cards you pile on, since only the second draw counts. That constraint is what keeps a modest body reasonable at this rate: it sits quiet on a turn where you never cross the line, and it never spikes twice on a big card-draw turn, so its growth tracks a repeatable draw step rather than a one-time explosion. Blue has printed plenty of creatures that convert card advantage into board presence, but most keyed off any draw or off casting a particular spell type; pinning the payoff to the second draw specifically is a tighter, more legible knob, one that asks for a consistent overdraw rather than a burst. It is a common-rarity engine piece, plainly built, and the precision lives entirely in that trigger condition: it turns "I drew an extra card" into a permanent, incremental clock that can never outrun its own leash, one counter per turn, no more.

Erudite Wizard (fdn)
FDN · #37common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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