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Thawbringer

Creature — Insect Scout2 generic manaGreen mana

The 4/2 body is the signal here: it wants to trade. Green rarely gets to pay for a death trigger without a sacrifice outlet, but a two-toughness attacker in a color built around bigger creatures dies in combat as a matter of routine, and this one banks a surveil on the way out. Front-loading the same surveil on entry means the card does its digging whether it lives or dies, so the aggressive stat line stops being a liability and becomes the engine's fuel: you deploy it, filter once, swing into a trade, filter again. That symmetry (enter-or-dies rather than enter-and-dies) is the quiet design choice doing the work, turning a fragile beater into a self-completing graveyard-fueler that asks nothing more than to be played the way its power and toughness already push you to play it. Green graveyard payoffs have grown steadily richer over the years, and a creature that fills two cards' worth of yard fodder while pressuring the opponent slots into that shell without costing a card or a slot to a dedicated enabler.

Thawbringer (eoe)
EOE · #211common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters or dies, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

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