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Viashino Racketeer

Creature — Lizard Rogue2 generic manaRed mana

The body is the giveaway: a 2/1 for three mana is below the curve for a creature meant to attack, which tells you this was never built to fight. The card-filtering trigger is the whole pitch. Looting on a stick has a long, quiet history in red as a way to smooth draws and feed graveyard payoffs, and stapling it to a cheap, expendable body is the common-rarity version of that idea: a creature you play for the rummage and are happy to chump-block with afterward. The trigger is optional and symmetrical in cost (one card for one card), so it does nothing for raw card advantage; what it buys is selection and, in the right shell, fuel. Discarding a fatty or a flashback spell turns the loot into a setup move rather than a wash, and the cheap body means you rarely feel the tempo. Outside of decks that actively want cards in the bin or a specific card in hand, it is a small effect attached to a fragile creature, which is exactly the rate a design like this is supposed to carry.

Viashino Racketeer (rtr)
RTR · #112common
Pricing
Normal: $0.04
Foil: $0.34
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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