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Talas Lookout

Creature — Human Pirate2 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The death trigger here is the whole point, and it flips the usual math on a fragile flyer. A 3/2 for four in blue is a body that trades poorly and blocks worse; ordinarily that reads as a liability. Impulse-style card selection on death turns the trade into a transaction. When it dies, you dig two deep, keep the better card, and pitch the other, which means the card is never fully spent: it adds a card to your hand while it fills your graveyard, a small piece of upside that most vanilla evasive bodies never offer. The card advantage is real but modest, and it is gated behind death rather than the battlefield, so it rewards blocking, chump attacks, and sacrifice fodder rather than protecting the creature. Structurally it is a Pirate that wants to die, which makes it a quiet fit for graveyard-matters decks that care about the second card as much as the first. Nothing about the effect asks you to build around it; the trigger is a consolation that softens every unfavorable exchange the 3/2 body is going to walk into anyway.

Talas Lookout (dmu)
DMU · #68common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature dies, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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