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Hoarding Dragon

Creature — Dragon3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

A flier that doubles as an artifact tutor, with a built-in cost: the piece you fetch stays exiled until the dragon dies, so the body is the lock holding your treasure hostage. That structure is the whole design. Most tutors hand you the card and ask nothing further; this one binds the search to the creature's survival, which means the artifact you want is only as safe as a 4/4 with no protection. The death trigger turns that vulnerability into a delivery mechanism: trade the dragon in combat, sacrifice it, or let it get removed, and the exiled card arrives in hand at exactly the moment you no longer have to defend it. The flexibility runs deep because the search has no rate clause: a one-mana mana rock and a backbreaking combo piece cost the same to retrieve, and the body's value scales with what you point it at. It plays honest because the tutored card never enters the battlefield directly; you pay the dragon's death before you get to cast it, a two-step tax that keeps the effect from being a free toolbox. Built for decks that want one specific artifact and don't mind that the search engine has a heartbeat.

Hoarding Dragon (m11)
M11 · #144rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.33
Foil: $1.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card, exile it, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may put the exiled card into its owner's hand.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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