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Mouser Mark III

Artifact Creature — Robot1 generic manaBlue or Red mana
Format takes

How this card plays

8 reviews

UR Artifacts is the obvious home, and the attack restriction is doing real work there as a self-policing rate clause rather than a meaningful drawback. The deck wants this third or fourth in the colors once it has committed, behind a removal spell and a real payoff but ahead of the format's generic two-drops. The hybrid pip is the reason it stays pickable rather than a trap: a mono-blue or mono-red artifact build runs it without splashing, so a heavy-blue deck with an Equipment subtheme can take it on rate even before the second color is locked.

A 2/3 for two lines up well against the format's common ground stat lines, blocking the 1 generic manaColorless mana 2/2s cleanly and trading with the 2 generic manaColorless mana 3/2s without folding to the one-damage edges that tend to punish small artifact boards. That toughness is what lets it hold the ground while the deck assembles its payoffs.

What the format changes about the baseline is the artifact density question. TMT is not an artifact-matters set in the affinity sense: the subtheme exists, Equipment like Bespoke Bō and Novel Nunchaku turns the attack clause on, and the medium speed gives you the turns to find a second artifact. But in a straight UR Tempo build without that scaffolding, the clause bites more than it reads: turn-two play, no follow-up artifact, and the 2/3 sits behind your Sneak threats doing nothing on offense.

Maindeck in UR Artifacts, flex in a UR shell that has drifted toward spells, and a Stomped by the Foot magnet whenever it does attack. The honest read sits closer to Manual's five than Draftsim's three: a workhorse body, not an exciting one.

Mouser Mark III (tmt)
TMT · #159common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't attack unless you control another artifact.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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