Sage Owl

Library smoothing in its earliest creature form: a flying body that, on arrival, lets you reorder the four cards waiting to be drawn. The design idea is the deck-stacking enters trigger, an effect that touches nothing on the board but reshapes your next few turns, and it predates the explosion of scry and surveil that would eventually fold the principle into a keyword. Where scry lets you bin what you do not want, this only reorders: you cannot dig deeper, and you cannot dump a dead card to the bottom, so the payoff is purely sequencing rather than selection. That constraint is what keeps a small evasive creature from being more than a value blocker that fixes the next few draws. The lineage runs straight through to Brainstorm-style manipulation and, later, to the creature-based scry that designs like Sigiled Starfish would carry forward, but here the smoothing arrives in its plainest packaging: a body, flying, and one ordered look. This is early-era utility that taught players a draw is not just the card you turn over; it is a queue you can manage.