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Patchwork Beastie

Artifact Creature — BeastGreen mana

A 3/3 for a single green mana is a rate green has spent its whole history refusing to offer, and this card pays for it not with a downside on the body but with a gate on when the body is allowed to fight. Delirium here is a lock, not a bonus: until the graveyard holds four or more card types, the creature is a wall that can't block and a beater that can't swing, a green Ball Lightning frozen mid-lunge. The optional upkeep mill is the card feeding its own condition, one card at a time toward the diversity it needs, which turns the deckbuilding question into a graveyard problem rather than a curve problem. You want lands, instants, sorceries, artifacts, enchantments dropping into the yard on their own schedule, and the beast rewards a shell already invested in filling the graveyard for other reasons. That coupling is the whole design: an aggressive body held hostage by a delirium count, with a built-in engine that slowly pays the ransom. Left alone in an unfurnished graveyard it does nothing but mill one card a turn while it stands there inert; drop it into a deck that mills, cracks fetches, and cycles freely and the gate opens by the time it matters. It is delirium used as a genuine cost rather than a rider, which is rarer than the keyword's usual appearances suggest.

Patchwork Beastie (dsk)
DSK · #195uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Delirium — This creature can't attack or block unless there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill a card. (You may put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
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
Legal
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