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Leovold's Operative

Creature — Elf Rogue2 generic manaGreen mana

The 3/2 body is the punchline; the text that matters fires exactly once, during the draft itself, and never resolves in any game of Magic afterward. Picking it up lets you take two cards from a single booster pack, then skip a pick from the very next pack passed your way that round: a swap that turns the draft into a resource-management puzzle before a single land is shuffled. Instead of handing you an edge on the battlefield, it rewrites how many cards you see and when. The "draft face up" clause is not flavor, it is part of the price: everyone at the table can see you holding it and will read the pack you pass accordingly, so the tempo hit lands twice, once in the pick you forfeit and once in the information you leak. This kind of design belongs to a small class of cards whose entire ability lives in the drafting process rather than in play, and few of them push as hard as this one. Once it crosses into your deck it reverts to a vanilla green Elf Rogue that trades down to most three-drops, which is exactly the point: the power was front-loaded into a window that closes before turn one. Evaluating it means weighing extra card selection against board presence, and deciding whether grabbing two cards now is worth surrendering the next pick that comes to you.

Leovold's Operative (cn2)
CN2 · #66common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

Draft this card face up. As you draft a card, you may draft an additional card from that booster pack. If you do, turn this card face down, then pass the next booster pack without drafting a card from it. (You may look at that booster pack.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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