Persistent Petitioners

The permission-slip clause at the bottom is the entire pitch: a deck can run as many copies as it wants, breaking the four-of rule the way only a handful of designs ever have (the Relentless rats lineage, the Shadowborn Apostles). The rest of the card is built backward from that permission. The one-mana tap-to-mill-one is a slow drip on its own, deliberately underpowered so that assembling a critical mass is the point rather than an option. The real engine is the Advisor-counting ability: tap four of them, mill twelve, and suddenly the drip becomes a flood. It is a swarm design masquerading as a mill card, where the meaningful number is not the printed one-card mill but how many bodies you have on the board at once. Four Petitioners mills twelve; eight mills twelve twice; the math scales linearly with your commitment, so the deck's whole plan is "resolve enough of these that the untap step deletes libraries." The 1/3 body is not incidental either: three toughness survives most incidental pings and small blockers, keeping the swarm intact turn over turn while it grinds. This is a card that does nothing worth mentioning as a singleton and everything as a horde, a design that only makes sense once you accept the invitation to ignore how many copies a normal deck is allowed to hold.