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Phyrexian Archivist

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Construct6 generic mana

Graveyard hate that repeats and never mills you into a corner. Most graveyard interaction forces a trade of speed for permanence: an exile spell answers one target and leaves your hand, a mass-exile enchantment shuts everything off but only fires once. This trades the other way, offering a slow, recurring valve that sits on the board as a 4/5 wall with reach. The activated cost is deliberately taxing so the effect stays a leak rather than a lock: two mana and a tap per card means you cannot empty a graveyard in a turn, only pick off the single reanimation target or flashback spell that matters most, one activation at a time. Bottoming rather than exiling is the quiet distinction that shapes what it is good against; the card goes to the bottom of the library, so it is not gone forever, which means it is a hedge against recursion loops more than a hammer against reanimator's whole plan. The reach and the sturdy body are the concession that makes the six-mana price honest: a card asked to grind an engine down over several turns has to survive the ground and the air long enough to do it. This is graveyard hate built for the long game, a defensive fixture that answers the graveyard the way a blocker answers a board, gradually and on your own clock.

Phyrexian Archivist (mom)
MOM · #262common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach 2 generic mana, Tap: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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