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Morcant's Eyes

Kindred Enchantment — Elf1 generic manaGreen mana

The two abilities are answering the same problem from opposite ends: the upkeep surveil stocks the graveyard, and the sacrifice ability cashes it in. That loop is the whole design logic. Most graveyard payoffs ask you to supply your own enablers; this one is self-feeding, filling the bin a card at a time (when you want it) so the eventual 4 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana sacrifice cost pays out a token swarm scaled to work you have already banked. The surveil is discretionary, and that discretion carries real weight: you are never forced to pitch, so the enchantment reads as a slow selection engine on turns when the graveyard is stocked and a mill spade on turns when it is not. What keeps the payoff honest is the sacrifice clause paired with the sorcery-speed restriction. You cannot hold the tokens up as a combat trick, and you fire the ability exactly once, so the reward is front-loaded onto a single decisive turn rather than smeared across the game. Tribal graveyard synergy in green is not new territory, but the structure here is unusually clean: an enchantment that quietly counts its own Elves toward a body-count finisher, with no separate sacrifice outlet or recursion package needed to make the math move. The X in the token count rewards patience without demanding a dedicated mill subtheme, which is a tidier build-around than the effect first suggests.

Morcant's Eyes (ecl)
ECL · #185uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) 4 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana, Sacrifice this enchantment: Create X 2/2 black and green Elf creature tokens, where X is the number of Elf cards in your graveyard. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

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Standard
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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
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Timeless
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