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Grim Javelineer

Creature — Human Warrior2 generic manaBlack mana

The trigger is the tell: it fires whenever you attack, not when this creature attacks, so the +1/+0 detaches from its own body and floats to any attacker you choose. Send anything into the red zone and you get to hand out the bump, which turns a 3/2 for 2 generic manaBlack mana into a repeatable combat lever every turn you swing, even on turns it sits back. The surveil rider is where the two halves click together: the +1/+0 exists partly to push a small creature over a blocker's toughness, and when that boosted attacker trades or dies, you dig one card deeper toward whatever your graveyard wants. It rewards the aggressive-attrition posture black has always leaned on, where creatures are meant to die and death is a resource rather than a loss. Nothing here is loud on its own: the pump is a single point, the surveil is one card, and the body folds to almost any removal. What justifies the slot is the loop: attack, buff a creature into a favorable trade, cash the death for card selection, repeat. It is a grinding engine wearing a beater's stats, meant to treat the combat step as a way to filter draws and empty the board in the same motion.

Grim Javelineer (dft)
DFT · #89common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.06
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you attack, target attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. When that creature dies this turn, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

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