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Umbral Collar Zealot

Creature — Human Cleric1 generic manaBlack mana

A free, repeatable sacrifice outlet with a body attached, and the free part is the whole strategic proposition. The activation costs no mana and has no cap, so any creature or artifact you no longer need (a spent token, a chump blocker, an artifact whose job is done) converts into a surveil at instant speed. That matters more to aristocrats builds than the modest filtering suggests: an unconditional, repeatable outlet is exactly the piece those decks tend to be short on, and here it arrives on a 3/2 for two mana that can at least trade in combat if nothing better is happening. The surveil is almost incidental to the outlet, though it does feed graveyard-matters shells by loading the yard on your terms. Because the ability neither taps the Zealot nor requires its fodder to stay untapped, it stays live across the entire turn: it can cash in a creature the moment something threatens to kill it for free, or fire during your own combat to trade an attacker for value before damage rather than let it die for nothing. As a Cleric it sits in black's long line of self-sacrifice enablers, but where many of those charge mana per activation or limit the number of uses, this one asks only that you have something worth eating.

Umbral Collar Zealot (eoe)
EOE · #123uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.36
Foil: $0.57
Oracle Text

Rules text

Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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