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Goblin Surveyor

Creature — Goblin Scout2 generic manaRed mana

The payoff lives in the graveyard, not on the battlefield. A 3/2 with trample for 2 generic manaRed mana is a fine beater on curve, and trample is precisely the keyword that feeds the speed mechanic: excess combat damage spills through, chipping in the life loss that inches the speed counter upward. The loop is quietly self-reinforcing, since the creature applying the pressure is also the one advancing your speed toward the max-speed threshold that unlocks its second life. Reach that ceiling and the exile ability converts a dead card into a live one, paying 3 generic mana to draw. That structure rewards a shell that keeps attacking rather than stalling out, because the draw only comes online after you have been the aggressor, and each copy pays out exactly once. The design folds a mana sink and a sliver of card advantage into an aggressive body without asking the creature to do anything clever while alive; the reward is deferred until the board has already done its job. It is a tidy way to keep an early beater relevant deep into a game, when a naked 3/2 in hand would otherwise be the draw you least want to be holding on turn eight.

Goblin Surveyor (dft)
DFT · #131common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) Max speed — 3 generic mana, Exile this card from your graveyard: Draw a card.
Legalities

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Standard
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Legacy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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