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Tomb Robber

Creature — Human Pirate2 generic manaBlack mana

Most explore cards spend the keyword once, on entry, and move on; this one bolts explore to a repeatable engine and pays for it with the card in your hand. The discard is doing two jobs at once. As a cost it filters your deck, dumping a stranded land or a spent spell to dig for action, and when explore reveals a nonland it lets you fuel the graveyard by binning the card you saw. As a payoff it grows the body upward one flip at a time, since every nonland reveal parks a counter on the 1/1. Menace ties the package together: the same activations that turn dead cards into selection also turn a hard-to-block attacker into a clock, and the two halves reinforce each other turn after turn as long as you have cards to feed it. The friction is mana and hand size, not a finality counter or a once-per-turn clamp, which means the rate scales with how flooded or how empty your hand is. That is a sharper design than the body suggests: a discard outlet that improves your draws, a growth engine that closes games, and an evasive threat, all activated off a single line of text and limited only by what you are willing to throw away.

Tomb Robber (prix)
PRIX · #87srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace 1 generic mana, Discard a card: This creature explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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