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Skittering Surveyor

Artifact Creature — Construct3 generic mana

This is what fixing looks like when you commit to it: a body that does almost nothing in combat in exchange for guaranteeing the rest of your spells cast on curve. The lineage here runs back through Burnished Hart and forward into every colorless "fetch a basic" line, but the construct frame is where it stops being a plain cantrip. It is an artifact, so it counts for affinity and metalcraft and improvise; it is a creature, so it can be sacrificed, blinked, reanimated, or tutored as a body rather than a spell. Each of those interactions converts a one-time fixing trigger into something repeatable, which is the entire reason the card outlives its rate. The fetch grabs the basic to hand rather than the battlefield, so it never accelerates you; it smooths a multicolor manabase without warping the curve, which is precisely the job in a deck that already runs enough colorless utility to afford a 1/2 that taps for nothing. The shuffle clause pulls its own weight too, clearing a known draw or a fetch's scry residue and giving you a fresh look. None of this asks for clever play; it asks only that your deck wants both a creature and a land in the same colorless slot, and a surprising number of them do.

Skittering Surveyor (dom)
DOM · #230common
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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

3 sets
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