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Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer1 generic manaGreen manaWhite manaBlue mana

The static ability reads as filler until you count the loops it opens. Handing every creature you control a "Tap: Surveil 1" turns your whole board into a graveyard-filling engine, and the vigilance rider matters most as an attacking clause: your creatures can swing and stay untapped for defense, though tapping one to surveil still commits it, so each turn you are choosing which bodies dig and which hold back. That is not card advantage so much as graveyard architecture, and the reason becomes clear the moment Tocasia is in the yard herself. The exile-from-graveyard clause returns any number of artifact cards with total mana value ten or less, a very different constraint from most recursion: it does not cap the count, only the aggregate cost, so the ceiling is a table of one- and two-drop artifacts flooding back at once rather than a single fatty. The surveil engine spends the game stocking exactly the fuel the reanimation wants, then cashes it in a single sorcery-speed detonation. The eight-mana activation with two pips of each Bant color is the brake: it is a payoff you set up across many turns, not a tempo play. The rare trick here is that the recursion self-recurses through a creature you were already casting for its board presence; the 4/3 earns its keep on the battlefield, then earns it again from the graveyard, with the surveil engine bridging the two halves.

Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor (bro)
BRO · #224rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Creatures you control have vigilance and "Tap: Surveil 1." (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) 2 generic manaGreen manaGreen manaWhite manaWhite manaBlue manaBlue mana, Exile this card from your graveyard: Return any number of target artifact cards with total mana value 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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