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Osteomancer Adept

Creature — Squirrel Warlock1 generic manaBlack mana

Graveyard recursion has always run on a payment schedule: escape wants you to exile from the yard, flashback exiles the card itself, unearth just torches the creature at end of turn. This adept collapses that ledger into a repeatable tap ability, then charges for it twice. First comes forage, the exile-three-or-sacrifice-a-Food tax layered on top of each creature's mana cost, so every reanimation is really a two-part bill. Second comes the finality counter, which turns every returned body into a single-use asset: it dies once and exiles rather than lingering in the yard to be looped. That second clause is load-bearing. Strip it out and a two-mana tapper handing out repeatable graveyard casts becomes an obvious combo engine; with it, the reward comes from building a graveyard broad enough to feed the forage cost and a board plan that squeezes full value from each creature's one guaranteed death. Deathtouch is not decoration either: a 2/2 that trades up in combat keeps the engine alive on defense while the graveyard fills. The genuine design puzzle, rather than a raw value tap, is that both the fuel (forage) and the output (finality-countered creatures) draw from the same resource, the graveyard, so overusing the ability starves the thing that powers it.

Osteomancer Adept (blb)
BLB · #103rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.35
Foil: $0.45
Oracle Text

Rules text

Deathtouch Tap: Until end of turn, you may cast creature spells from your graveyard by foraging in addition to paying their other costs. If you cast a spell this way, that creature enters with a finality counter on it. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food. If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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