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Specimen Collector

Creature — Vedalken Wizard4 generic manaBlue mana

Three bodies drop off a single five-mana card, and two of them arrive on the way in: a 1/1 green Squirrel that wants to attack and a 0/3 blue Crab that wants to block, a mismatched pair that hands the copy clause a target no matter what the board asks for. It is unusual work for blue, a color that rarely conjures green tokens under its own power. The clever part fires when the Vedalken dies, because it copies any token you already control, not just the two it made. Point it at something larger sitting on your side (a Treasure, a beast, a soldier drifted in from elsewhere) and a fragile 2/1 that folds to almost any block trades up into your best token instead of one of its own leftovers. That flexibility is the return on the thin frame: worst case, one card becomes three creatures; best case, it upgrades as it exits. The parts kit rewards boards that trade in breadth, fodder to sacrifice, count to overload a symmetrical payoff, a copy to bank on the way out. It plays less like a creature than a supply line, which is the reason to stack this many separate tokens into one card.

Specimen Collector (plst)
PLST · #MH2-64uncommon
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Normal: $0.06
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token and a 0/3 blue Crab creature token. When this creature dies, create a token that's a copy of target token you control.
Legalities

Format Status

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