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Graceful Adept

Creature — Human Wizard2 generic manaBlue mana

The seven-card discard step exists to keep card advantage from snowballing past a certain point, and this Wizard's entire job is to delete that rule. Whether the body justifies the slot has always been the question: a 1/3 blocks early aggression and survives a fair number of pings, but nothing about the stat line wins games, and the ability does literally nothing unless your draw engine is already overflowing. That narrows the use case to decks that have solved the "draw too many cards" problem and stumbled into the "now I have to throw them away" problem, which is a thin sliver of the design space. The functional ancestor is Reliquary Tower, which does the same work from the land slot without committing a creature to combat; Spellbook and the various "no maximum hand size" effects that followed all answer the same downstream consequence of go-wide card drawing. What this version offers over those is that it sits on a blocker and inside the Wizard tribe, so a deck already leaning on Wizards can fold the effect in without bending its curve. It is a support piece for an engine, not the engine, and it reads as honest about that: a narrow patch for a problem most decks never have, attached to a body just sturdy enough to earn the mana while you wait for the hand to fill up.

Graceful Adept (chk)
CHK · #63uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.47
Foil: $6.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

You have no maximum hand size.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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