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Shipwreck Dowser

Creature — Merfolk Wizard3 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Merfolk Wizard is the tribe, but the interesting axis is the marriage of two blue engines that usually live in separate decks. Prowess is aggro's clock, rewarding a spell-dense hand by turning every cantrip and burn spell into a temporary pump. Enter-the-battlefield spell recursion is the tempo-and-attrition tool, giving back the Counterspell or removal you already spent. Stapling both onto one body means the same card that wants a graveyard full of instants and sorceries also wants a hand full of them, and the recursion refills exactly the fuel the prowess trigger burns. The result is a value creature that folds back into itself: it returns a spell, you cast that spell, it grows. What keeps the loop from being oppressive is the shape of the recursion, a one-time enter trigger rather than an activated engine, so the payoff is front-loaded and finite unless you find a way to blink or rebuy the creature. At five mana for a 3/3, the body is not the pitch; the free card and the prowess platform are. This is top-end for a spellslinger deck, the sort that turns late-game topdecks into two-for-ones by arriving with a card already in hand and a growing threat attached.

Shipwreck Dowser (m21)
M21 · #71uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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