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Wary Thespian

Creature — Cat Druid1 generic manaGreen mana

A 3/1 for two is a body priced to trade in combat, and everything about the design assumes it will. The surveil trigger fires twice off a single card: once when it enters and once when it dies, so the aggressive stat line stops being a liability and becomes a schedule. You get one dig through your library when it lands, then a second whenever it dies, whether that death comes from a block, a burn spell, or a sacrifice outlet. That doubling is the point. A one-shot enters-the-battlefield surveil bolted to a fragile creature is fine value; the death half turns the card into something that wants to die, converting the flimsy toughness into part of the engine rather than a downside to be minded. It rewards decks that want cheap green creatures churning through the graveyard: reanimator setups seeding fuel, delirium and threshold builds counting card types, anything that treats the yard as a resource rather than a loss column. The base card is modest, but the shape (a cheap creature that filters draws on both ends of its life cycle) is the kind of low-variance smoothing that quietly earns slots wherever green wants to see more of its deck without spending cards to do it.

Wary Thespian (fdn)
FDN · #235common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters or dies, 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
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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