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Sinister Starfish

Creature — Starfish1 generic manaBlack mana

A wall that also digs. The 0/3 body exists to sit uncontested through the early game: nothing about the stat line invites a trade, and that inertness is the point, because the card wants to sit back and tap every turn rather than block for value. Each idle turn becomes a soft library filter, one card of graveyard-fuel and top-of-deck smoothing at a time, which makes it a repeatable enabler for anything that cares about a stocked graveyard or wants to move a dead draw off the top. Surveil rather than mill or scry is the deliberate choice: it fills the yard on demand while still letting you keep a card you need, so it feeds delve, flashback, reanimation, and threshold-style payoffs without the downside of milling yourself out or stranding a bad card on top with no way to shift it. The friction is that it does nothing the turn it lands and produces exactly one surveil per turn cycle, a slow drip rather than a burst; it is an engine that pays out over a long game, not a card that swings a tempo race. It sits in the tradition of graveyard-enablers that ask for nothing but time: no mana beyond the casting cost, no risk to itself in combat, just a steady hand on the top of your library.

Sinister Starfish (mkc)
MKC · #140common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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