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Sanitation Automaton

Artifact Creature — Construct2 generic mana

Surveil on a body this cheap is set-and-forget bin-filling: a colorless 2/1 that smooths one draw and seeds the graveyard as it lands, with no build-around cost and no color commitment. The value lives in what it asks of a deck, not what it does in isolation. Surveil 1 is a small effect, but graveyard-matters strategies want incidental self-mill distributed across many low-rarity slots rather than concentrated in one expensive engine: a delve enabler, a flashback fuel line, an escape or aristocrat setup that happens to present a blocker on the way in. Being an artifact creature adds a second axis most surveil-on-entry bodies lack, feeding improvise, affinity-style counts, or a sacrifice outlet. The toughness is what balances it: a 2/1 that dies to nearly everything and threatens no real clock, so nobody runs it for the beatdown; the surveil justifies the slot by itself. This is accessible graveyard-seeding for a set's color-agnostic slots, filling a narrow but real gap for the deck that would rather run five cheap enablers than one costly one.

Sanitation Automaton (mkm)
MKM · #256common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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