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Ovalchase Daredevil

Creature — Human Pilot3 generic manaBlack mana

A 4/2 that costs four mana is a body the game stopped paying full price for years ago, but the rate was never the point: this is a recursion engine that asks only that you keep flickering, casting, or building artifacts. The graveyard return is the kind of fixed-cost loop designers love because it pays for itself the moment the deck is doing what it already wants to do. In an artifact deck, every cheap trinket that enters offers a free trip back to hand, which turns a fragile two-toughness attacker into a permanent fixture of the board: chump, recur, sacrifice for value, recur again. It pairs naturally with sacrifice outlets, because the return trigger doesn't care whether the Daredevil left play to combat, removal, or your own aristocrat engine. The discipline here is that the trigger only refills your hand, not the battlefield: you still have to spend the mana to recast it, so the loop costs four mana per lap and can't go infinite on its own. That keeps a card with an open-ended recursion clause from breaking the games it's built for. It belongs in the lineage of black creatures that refuse to stay dead by tying their resurrection to a resource the deck already generates, a graveyard-hand shuttle priced to reward density of cheap artifacts rather than any single combo piece.

Ovalchase Daredevil (kld)
KLD · #97uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.33
Foil: $0.43
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever an artifact you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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