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Visage of Dread // Dread Osseosaur

Artifact // Creature — Dinosaur Skeleton Horror

Targeted discard that names only the two card types worth taking, artifact or creature, chosen by you from a revealed hand, welded to a back half that repays you for spending the shell. That two-part structure is the design idea: a proactive turn-two disruption spell that doubles as a scouting report, then converts into a threat rather than idling on the battlefield as a spent permanent. The craft cost exiles the artifact along with two creatures (from play or your graveyard) at sorcery speed, folding that material into a menacing body. It reframes the early discard as a down payment: the disruption is a real play whether or not you ever pay for the transform, and the creature stands on its own once you do. The mill on the back half is not filler, but it is worth being precise about what it feeds. The transform triggers refill the graveyard only after craft is already paid, so the mill cannot bankroll its own conversion. What it does is bury more material for whatever else in the deck wants a stocked yard, delayed value that arrives once the threat is already online. The package coheres because neither half embarrasses the other: disruption first, threat second, with a graveyard trickle stitched onto the tail rather than the entrance.

Visage of Dread // Dread Osseosaur (lci)
LCI · #129uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this artifact enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an artifact or creature card from it. That player discards that card. Craft with two creatures 5 generic manaBlack mana (5 generic manaBlack mana, Exile this artifact, Exile the two from among creatures you control and/or creature cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.) // Menace Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

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