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Watcher of the Wayside

Artifact Creature — Golem3 generic mana

Mill has spent most of its history bolted to blue, occasionally to black, because those colors traditionally owned graveyard interaction. A colorless Golem that fills a yard on arrival deliberately widens who gets to reach for that axis: any deck, any color, can run this and start stacking cards in a graveyard from turn three onward. The load-bearing detail is the target-player clause. Point the two-card mill at yourself when you want fuel for a delve or reanimation or threshold payoff; point it at an opponent when you would rather run a slow mill clock or knock a known card off the top of their library. The two life is the softener, a small return that means the card is never pure downside on the turns when there is no graveyard payoff to feed and you are just deploying a 3/2 body. Nothing here reaches for the ceiling: a body this size that mills two and gains two is a floor. But the floor is the point. This is common-rarity artifact plumbing built to hand graveyard and self-mill shells an option outside their usual colors, and to give any other deck a creature that does a little something on its way to the board. It should be measured by the engine it serves, not by the numbers stamped on the frame.

Watcher of the Wayside (tdm)
TDM · #249common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.13
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, target player mills two cards. You gain 2 life. (To mill two cards, a player puts the top two cards of their library into their 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
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