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Sanguine Spy

Creature — Vampire Rogue2 generic manaBlack mana

The delayed draw trigger is the whole design, and its condition is the tell: not how many cards sit in your graveyard, but how many different mana values they cover. That is a diversity check, not a size check, and it steers you away from a bin stuffed with identical cheap spells toward a spread of costs. The sacrifice line feeds it, pitching another creature to surveil while helping you dig, so the card prefers to eat a mix of bodies rather than the same one-drop over and over. That five-value gate does real balancing work: it keeps the engine dormant in the early game, exactly when a free card would matter most, and only switches on once you have committed cards of varied cost to the yard. Everything else is combat texture. Menace and lifelink turn a modest 2/3 into a body that pressures blockers and offsets the two life the draw costs, so the attrition shell that fills a graveyard is also the shell that can afford to pay for cards. Note the limit, though: the activated ability demands another creature to sacrifice, so this is a payoff for a sacrifice deck, not the engine that supplies one. It converts fodder into selection and pays you off at end step, but the fodder has to come from somewhere else.

Sanguine Spy (psnc)
PSNC · #93prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace, lifelink 1 generic mana, Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) At the beginning of your end step, if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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