Sage's Row Savant

The dependable common shape for a repeatable smoothing effect: a 2/1 that trades in combat, wrapped around an enter-the-battlefield scry 2 that reorders the top two cards of your library. The body is beside the point (it dies to almost anything and blocks nothing durable); the value is that the smoothing rides on a permanent you can flicker, bounce, and replay. Every re-entry hands you another scry 2, so the card rewards decks already built to reset creatures for other reasons and turns that reset loop into a library-sculpting one. This is the quiet lineage the design belongs to: enter-the-battlefield value creatures where the stat line is incidental and the trigger does all the pulling, a shape that traces back to the earliest such effects. Scry 2 earns its keep in the mid-game, letting a controlling deck bury a flooded top or dig toward an answer while still committing a warm body to the board. As a standalone tempo play it is modest; attached to a blink or bounce shell it becomes a slow, grinding advantage that never asks for a second card to keep working.