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Pattern Matcher

Artifact Creature — Golem4 generic mana

The tutor tax is the whole design: it only fetches a card whose name already matches a creature you control, so it can never find the first copy of anything, only the second. That constraint turns it into a consistency engine rather than raw search. In a deck built around a single powerful nonlegendary creature, the first copy lands however it lands, and this Golem digs for the reinforcement that makes the strategy redundant. The 3/3 body does its work in combat and nowhere else; the enters-the-battlefield search is what earns the slot, and because the trigger keys off arriving on the battlefield instead of the cast, blinking or recurring it re-arms the search every time. It fits a narrow structural niche: the deck that treats redundant copies of a key creature as its win condition and needs a way to assemble them faster than natural draws allow. Outside that framework the trigger simply whiffs, since a lone creature with a unique name gives the search nothing to find. The card lives or dies on whether your creature base is deliberately doubled up.

Pattern Matcher (m20)
M20 · #234uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.61
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a card with the same name as another creature you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
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
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