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Station Monitor

Creature — Lizard ArtificerWhite manaBlue mana

Prowess and its kin have almost always paid off in stats: a bigger attacker, a cantrip converted into pressure, a burn spell aimed at the face. Here the second-spell trigger builds a board instead, but the tokens it makes are deliberately hobbled. Each Drone can only block fliers, which strips them of the ground-holding job most white token swarms are built to do. The value is not in any single Drone but in the cadence: cast two spells a turn across several turns and the trigger assembles an evasive squadron a two-mana body has no business fielding. That blocking clause carries the balancing weight: these are not all-purpose walls parked in front of the opponent's attackers, but fliers that exist to attack in the air and answer other fliers, which pushes the card toward decks that close from above rather than grind on the ground. The design asks the same thing of you twice: run a low-curve, spell-dense list where hitting the second cast every turn is routine rather than an occasion. The token generation scales with how disciplined that plan is, so the payoff accrues to a shell that already wanted to chain cheap interaction and threats, and offers almost nothing when most turns go to resolving a single expensive spell. Engine and playstyle are welded together: the aerial army shows up only when the second spell keeps coming.

Station Monitor (eoe)
EOE · #230uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, create a 1/1 colorless Drone artifact creature token with flying and "This token can block only creatures with flying."
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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