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Sentinel Totem

Artifact1 generic mana

Graveyard hate that pays rent. The persistent problem with sweeping artifacts and enchantments that exile all graveyards is the cost of holding a dead card against decks that never give you a reason to use it: when the opponent isn't a reanimator or delve deck, the slot is a blank. This answers that by stapling a scry 1 to the entry, so the card smooths a draw or a mulligan even in matchups where the exile half never fires. The activated ability is the real weapon, and its construction is precise: tapping and exiling the artifact itself to exile all graveyards lets it sit on the battlefield as a permanent until the moment you need it, then leave the game cleanly so neither player can reuse or recur it. That one-shot, self-exiling shape gives it a different job from repeatable graveyard wardens; it's a single bullet you load early and fire on your own timing, including in response to a recursion attempt on the stack. The design lineage is the long line of cheap, colorless graveyard answers built to be maindeckable rather than sideboard-only, and the scry trigger is the concession that makes that ambition honest: a hate piece you're never embarrassed to draw against the wrong opponent.

Sentinel Totem (xln)
XLN · #245uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.53
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this artifact enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Tap, Exile this artifact: Exile all graveyards.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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