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Silver Deputy

Artifact Creature — Mercenary2 generic mana

The land-fetch here is a Sylvan Ranger variant with the smoothing dialed back: instead of drawing the fetched card, it sets your next draw to a basic or Desert, guaranteeing the land at the cost of a draw step. That distinction is why this reads as a fixer for decks leaning on Desert typing rather than a card-advantage engine; it thins nothing and costs you a real card off the top, but it lets you assemble a specific land for whatever the Desert package is doing. The activated ability is the stranger half: a repeatable +1/+0 to any creature you control, walled off from instant speed. That sorcery-speed clause is the entire restriction, because it forbids the obvious combat-trick line: you cannot swing in and pump to steal a block, so the buff has to be committed during your main phase, before attackers are even declared, with the boost fading at end of turn. As an artifact creature it counts twice for Mercenary and artifact-count builds, but the 1/2 body signals a support piece and not a threat: it fetches, it nudges attacks along, and it survives incidental pings while doing so. The design logic is a fixer that keeps earning its slot past the turn it lands, trading the immediate card draw of its predecessors for a slow, sorcery-locked attrition edge.

Silver Deputy (otj)
OTJ · #248common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.11
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Desert card, reveal it, then shuffle and put it on top. Tap: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
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
Legal
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