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Fen Hauler

Creature — Insect6 generic manaBlack mana

A 5/5 with a printed seven-mana cost is a bluff: that number is only what you pay when the board is empty. Fill it with Servos, Thopters, and assorted trinkets first, and improvise lets you tap those artifacts after mana abilities to shave the cost down to a splash of black plus whatever junk is lying around. The unblockable-by-artifact-creatures clause points the same deck at the same target: the pile of small artifacts you flood the board with to make this cheap is the pile you want swinging in a metalcraft mirror, where the bodies most likely to gum up combat are precisely the artifact creatures this thing walks past. The discount comes from your own board; the evasion reads the opponent's; both reward the same artifact-dense strategy this closes out. That symmetry is the whole pitch, and it is also the ceiling. The body does nothing on its own, the evasion is conditional on what the opponent happens to control, and improvise only ever refunds cost; it never generates advantage. This is a common-rarity curve-topper for artifact aggro: a serviceable finisher once the board is already stocked, and dead weight anywhere that fuel does not exist.

Fen Hauler (klr)
KLR · #85common
Pricing
Normal: $0.02
Foil: $0.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for 1 generic mana.) This creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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