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Sinkhole Surveyor

Creature — Bird Scout1 generic manaBlack mana

Attacking is the only way to feed this thing, and that constraint is the whole shape of it. The endure trigger fires on the attack step, not on entry and not off a mana sink, so every point of value is paid for by committing the body to combat and shaving a life off your total as it swings. From there the choice forks: grow into a single evasive flier that outclimbs the board it keeps running into, or peel off a Spirit and leave the 1/3 where it stands, building a wider battlefield that a sacrifice shell can actually use. Those two lines point in opposite directions, and the incremental life loss is what stops the fork from being free: you are financing the engine out of your own totals, so it only pays off when the pressure you generate outruns the attrition. A stalled board turns it inert, which pushes it toward decks that keep swinging rather than durdling behind blockers. As a body it is a compact bit of glue for a black-white counters-and-bodies plan, small enough to trade poorly on its own but happy to convert repeated combat into either a threat or fuel, depending on which half of the shell around it is hungrier.

Sinkhole Surveyor (ptdm)
PTDM · #93prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.32
Foil: $0.95
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, you lose 1 life and this creature endures 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token.)
Legalities

Format Status

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