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Micromancer

Creature — Human Wizard3 generic manaBlue mana

A tutor stapled to a body is old territory, but the constraint here is unusually tight: the search only finds instants and sorceries at mana value exactly one, not "cheap" spells and not any old low-cost card. That narrows the pool to the format's densest tier of interaction and enablers: a Lightning Bolt, a Consider, a Ponder, a single ritual, a fetchable combo piece. The design logic is a wizard tribal payoff wearing removal-tutor clothing, where the value of the trigger scales entirely with how spiky your one-drop spellbook is. A deck full of unremarkable one-mana cantrips gets a mildly convenient toolbox; a deck built around a single game-ending one-cost spell gets a redundant fifth copy attached to a repeatable creature that can be blinked, bounced, or reanimated. That gap between the two builds is where the card lives. The 3/3 for four is deliberately unimportant; nobody plays this for the beatdown. It is a search engine that asks you to make its target list matter, and the reward is precision rather than raw card advantage, since it only ever fetches one and puts it straight to hand rather than into play. The tight mana-value clause is what keeps it from becoming a universal Demonic Tutor: you cannot go grab the best card in your deck, only the best one-drop, and building a deck where that restriction stops mattering is the puzzle it sets.

Micromancer (dmu)
DMU · #57uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 1, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

1 set
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