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Trusty Packbeast

Creature — Beast2 generic manaWhite mana

White's stake in artifacts has always leaned toward getting a broken tool back rather than building a new one, and this is that instinct rendered at its plainest: a 2/3 body that hauls a single artifact card out of your graveyard as it lands, then stops asking anything of you. No cost reduction, no repeatable loop, no instant-speed flicker window; the trigger fires once on entry, and the stat line offers no handle to pry the effect open. That deliberate flatness is what lets it live at common rarity. A version that returned the artifact and cheated it into play, or did the trick every turn, would have outgrown the space this design was cut to fit. What you get instead is durability insurance for a workhorse equipment or a mana rock: something you own once and would rather not lose to a shatter permanently. Getting the card back reads as upside layered on a serviceable blocker rather than the front half of an engine, and the body is legible enough that a new player can weigh it without knowing what the returned artifact does. It sits at the floor of the artifact-matters axis on purpose, where recovery is a bonus tacked onto a fair creature, not a payoff that warps a deck around it.

Trusty Packbeast (cmr)
CMR · #53common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
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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