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Illicit Shipment

Sorcery3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Tutors that fetch a card straight to hand are usually kept honest by their cost, their color, or a downside clause: black pays life, others exile the target, several restrict what you can name. This one asks for a body instead, and the return is unusually literal. Feed Casualty a creature of power 3 or more, and the entire spell copies, splitting one search into two independent tutors that can hunt for entirely different cards. That structure rewards a deck already leaking creatures for value: a token, a spent attacker, whatever was headed for the graveyard anyway becomes fuel for a doubled toolbox. Note that the copy is not free upside bolted onto a strong effect; the base rate is deliberately soft (five mana for a single search sits behind the curve for a straight tutor), so the card wants a shell where the Casualty is the plan rather than an afterthought. What the two copies fetch is where the deckbuilding lives: a combo piece plus its enabler, a land plus a threat, insurance against interaction on the stack. The design leans into black's long tradition of spending bodies for cards, framing the sacrifice not as a tax but as the mechanism that makes the redundancy worth the mana.

Illicit Shipment (snc)
SNC · #83uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
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
N/A
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