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Thaumaturge's Familiar

Artifact Creature — Bird3 generic mana

Colorless card selection in its plainest wrapper: a flying body that smooths a single draw as it lands and asks nothing of your color commitments. That colorlessness is the whole reason a card this modest exists. Scry-on-a-flier is a well-worn template, but it usually rides inside a specific color's slot and answers to that color's curve; stripping the effect down to a generic artifact means any deck, regardless of what it is casting, can run a small evasive body that filters its top card on the way in. The 1/3 frame marks this as a blocker and a trade piece rather than a clock: three toughness holds up against small ground threats and survives an incidental point of damage, but the single point of power means it pressures nothing on offense, and in the air it dies to most fliers rather than dominating them. The scry is there to keep three mana from feeling wasted, giving the drop a purpose beyond the stats. What you get is a middle-of-the-curve artifact creature with one point of card selection stapled to its entry: an evasive speed bump that fits any shell because it belongs to no color, and one more body for strategies that count artifact creatures specifically.

Thaumaturge's Familiar (thb)
THB · #238common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, scry 1.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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