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Faceless Agent

Creature — Shapeshifter3 generic mana

Seek was built for a digital-only environment where genuinely random selection could be implemented cleanly, and this Shapeshifter is one of its most legible payoffs: a tutor that trades your ability to choose for a guarantee that it finds something on-type. The entry trigger reads your library's composition, counts which creature type appears most often, and pulls a random creature of that type into your hand. Changeling matters for the Agent's own identity (it can be your fourth Sliver or fifth Goblin for effects that check types), but it does not touch the math the trigger cares about: the seek looks at what remains in your library, not at the Agent standing in front of it, which is already out of the library when the trigger resolves. Keeping those two things separate explains why the effect can whiff badly in the wrong shell and hit reliably in the right one. A tutor that cannot pick loses most of its value the moment your library is a toolbox of singletons, and regains it the moment your library is thick with copies of one tribe. That is Seek's honest limit, and this card lives entirely inside it: it wants twenty-plus creatures sharing a type, where "a random one of those" collapses into "another one of those," and it does nothing you would want in a deck of unique answers.

Faceless Agent (j21)
J21 · #1common
Oracle Text

Rules text

Changeling When Faceless Agent enters the battlefield, seek a creature card of the most prevalent creature type in your library. (To seek a card, put one at random from your library into your hand.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
N/A
Vintage
N/A
Commander
N/A
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
N/A
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
N/A
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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