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Relic Seeker

Creature — Human Soldier1 generic manaWhite mana

A tutor with a clock attached, and the clock runs the wrong way for the player who wants to sit back. The Equipment search never fires on cast: it waits behind the first connection, so the 2/2 has to swing, survive, and land a hit before it grows to a 3/3 and pulls any Equipment straight to hand. That conditional structure keeps the rate honest. An unconditional two-mana Equipment tutor stapled to a body would be far above the curve; gating the fetch behind combat math means the payoff arrives a turn late, and only against an opponent who declines to trade into the early attack. The design logic underneath is tidy. An Equipment shell wants a cheap, white-aligned creature that both carries a weapon and finds one, and a body eager to attack in the first place happens to be the ideal candidate to hold the sword it fetches. The renown counter and the retrieved gear compound: a bigger body plus a buff-granting weapon turns the next attack step into a faster kill, which shortens the same combat that powered the tutor. Outside a deck built around what the fetch delivers, the second ability is dead text, and that is the trade the design accepts. This is a build-around enabler, not a standalone threat; the fetched card is meant to matter more than the creature that fetched it.

Relic Seeker (prm)
PRM · #57574rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.72
Oracle Text

Rules text

Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.) When this creature becomes renowned, you may search your library for an Equipment card, 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
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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