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Foul Watcher

Creature — Nightmare Bird1 generic manaBlue mana

Both halves of this bird pull toward the same graveyard-counting goal, so it reads as a support piece rather than a self-contained engine. The enters-the-battlefield surveil is a small down payment toward the four-card-type threshold: put a card into the graveyard, and you have nudged one type closer to switching the delirium bonus on. Clear the count and the 1/2 flyer becomes a 2/2 flyer, which is the difference between a chip attacker and a body that trades with the two-drops it flies past. The honest tension is that a single surveil almost never gets you to delirium alone; this creature is one voice in a graveyard chorus, not the whole choir. It fills a specific and often thankless slot: the cheap evasive body that also greases the yard, so the fetchlands, cantrips, and self-mill around it can turn on the real payoffs. Every surveil generated elsewhere edges the graveyard toward the count that grows this creature, and the creature's own trigger pays a little back into that same pool. It is built for a deck that already cares about card-type variety in the graveyard, sized to attack in the air the moment that deck comes online, and content to be a modest flyer in the games where the yard stays thin.

Foul Watcher (mh2)
MH2 · #43common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) Delirium — This creature gets +1/+0 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

1 set
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