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Forgotten Creation

Creature — Zombie Horror3 generic manaBlue mana

A Wheel of Fortune motor you can fire every upkeep, with the catch built into the math: it draws exactly as many cards as you discard, so emptying a one-card hand nets you one card and changes nothing about your count. This is filtering, not advantage. The reward is purely qualitative: you trade a fistful of dead cards for the same number of fresh ones, which means the engine pays out best when you have spent your turn and are holding a hand you would rather not keep. That pushes a particular play pattern, since cashing in a stockpile of blanks for a stockpile of unknowns is the strongest possible activation, while looting away a single useful card to dig is the weakest. The may clause keeps that decision yours: a hand you want to keep is never forced into the bin. And the bin is where the second read lives. Because the discard is a hard discard to the graveyard, anything that wants cards there (reanimation targets, delve fuel, madness payoffs, threshold counters) treats the dump as the entire point and the redraw as a free side effect, flipping the card from a looting body into a graveyard-loading engine. The skulk 3/3 is a separate clock that happens to ride along: an evasive body the deck can deploy independent of whether the upkeep trigger ever helps it, since the two halves of the card never touch.

Forgotten Creation (psoi)
PSOI · #63srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.
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
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