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Sibsig Appraiser

Creature — Zombie Advisor2 generic manaBlue mana

The graveyard is the point here, not the selection. On its face this reads like ordinary blue smoothing: peek at two, keep the better one. But the leftover card goes straight from the library into the graveyard, and that placement is a deliberate deposit rather than a cost. It seeds the yard with fuel while letting you steer which half becomes hand and which becomes fodder, feeding delve, flashback, escape, or reanimation on a body cheap enough to chump-block or crew without complaint. The two poles this splits are worth naming: pure filtering in the vein of Anticipate or Impulse leaves the yard empty, while pure self-mill like Stitcher's Supplier gives you no say over what stays in hand. Here the card played for its filter and the card played for its fodder are the same card. That the effect rides on a 2/1 rather than an instant matters more than it looks, because a creature's enter trigger is what deckbuilders actually want to loop, and a creature is far easier to reuse than a spell through blink or flicker. Note too that the leftover is not discarded but moved from the library, so it feeds graveyard-matters payoffs without touching discard triggers. The Zombie Advisor line quietly points at where this belongs: not a fair blue tempo shell but a deck that treats its own library as a resource pool and its graveyard as a second hand.

Sibsig Appraiser (tdm)
TDM · #56common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
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Legacy
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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