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Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Rogue1 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Theft cards usually have to bargain for their value with high costs or random outcomes; this one bills the opponent's own decklist as the price tag. The islandwalk is not decoration, it is the delivery mechanism: against any deck holding an Island the body is functionally unblockable, which turns the combat-damage trigger from a hope into a clock. Each connection rifles the defending player's library for an artifact and exiles it, then hands you a one-turn window to play it, so the value scales precisely with how artifact-dense the table is. That makes it a parasite that feeds best in metagames built on mana rocks, equipment, and artifact engines, and starves harmlessly against a deck that runs none. The shuffle clause is the quiet cost on the opponent's side, smoothing the library it just pillaged, but the asymmetry is stark: you take the best artifact you can find, they get a reshuffle and a missing card. What keeps the design from running away is the narrowness of the loot (artifacts only) and the use-it-or-lose-it timing on the cast: anything you exile and fail to play simply stays gone, denying both players, which reframes the trigger as removal when you cannot use what you find. A 2/2 that demands repeated connections is fragile and slow, but the payoff is a recurring, evasive tax on exactly the cards that opponents lean on hardest.

Thada Adel, Acquisitor (wwk)
WWK · #40rare
Pricing
Normal: $19.44
Foil: $38.95
Oracle Text

Rules text

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever Thada Adel deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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