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Scuttling Butler

Artifact Creature — Construct3 generic mana

A 4/1 body is a coin flip: it hits like a real threat and dies to anything that so much as looks at it, and pairing that fragility with conditional double strike is a deliberate bet on tempo over durability. The trigger checks for two or more multicolored permanents, not two colors of mana, which steers it toward decks that already run gold cards as a matter of course rather than any tribe or artifact theme. When it turns on, the math is brutal: four power with double strike reads as eight, delivered by a creature that will not survive the swing back, so it belongs in the attack step and the trade, not tucked behind blockers. The combat-step timing is the quiet knob. The condition is evaluated at the beginning of combat on your turn, so a multicolored permanent that leaves before then, or arrives after, never counts, and an opponent holding removal can strip the enabler in response to shrink the attack down to a bare 4/1. That makes it a construct scaling with your commitment to a gold-heavy build: a cheap, punchy beater for a deck already leaning on multicolored permanents for reasons that have nothing to do with this creature.

Scuttling Butler (snc)
SNC · #244uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control two or more multicolored permanents, this creature gains double strike until end of turn.
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
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