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Glint-Nest Crane

Creature — Bird1 generic manaBlue mana

The body is the tax that makes the dig honest. A blue two-drop that looks four cards deep for an artifact is a strong rate in the abstract; the modest 1/3 flier attached to it is what keeps that selection from being free. The three toughness is doing real defensive work, walling the small attackers that pressure an artifact deck while it assembles its pieces, and the flying means the body never goes fully dead once the engine has fired. The selection is narrow by design. It finds only artifacts, so the card functions as a deckbuilding contract rather than a generic cantrip: you commit enough artifact density that digging four cards reliably hits, and in exchange you get a creature that doubles as a tutor for whatever combo piece, equipment, or mana rock the shell revolves around. The loose reading of "artifact card" matters here, since artifact creatures and artifact lands count, widening the hit rate for decks built to exploit them. The bottom-of-library clause is the quiet upside of that breadth: the misses go to the bottom in an order you choose rather than clogging the top of your deck, so the dig clears dead noise out of your future draws even when it whiffs. The ceiling scales directly with how far you are willing to commit to a single card type; the more artifacts in the deck, the closer this comes to a creature that fetches exactly what it needs.

Glint-Nest Crane (klr)
KLR · #50uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.43
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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