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Sawblade Scamp

Creature — Phyrexian BeastRed mana

Spellslinger reach compressed onto a hasty one-drop, banking damage off gameplay you were already doing. Cast a burn spell, a cantrip, a noncreature artifact, and the Scamp accumulates a charge it can later tap for a point straight to the opponent's face. That decouples the payoff from the board: it doesn't matter that a 1/1 dies to everything, because the damage stored in oil counters is already spent from your hand's perspective, and haste means the creature was never summoning-sick to begin with. The design's real discipline sits in the removal clause. The ability deals 1 to each opponent, not to any target, so it can't clear blockers, can't trade with creatures, can't do anything but point at faces. It is a pure clock, a reservoir that trickles one direction. Just as important is the tap: a single activation per turn, cashing one counter, which keeps the stored pile from dumping all at once and makes the reservoir genuinely fragile. Since the counters live on a 1/1 that requires tapping to cash out, an opponent who kills the Scamp in response strands every counter it's holding. You are betting the game lasts long enough for a slow drip to matter while the vessel survives long enough to pour. That temporal gamble is the whole shape of the card: front-load damage into counters now, hope to collect later, on a body that invites the exact removal that voids the account.

Sawblade Scamp (one)
ONE · #292common
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature. Tap, Remove an oil counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Legalities

Format Status

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