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Wharf Infiltrator

Creature — Human Horror1 generic manaBlue mana

Most rummaging effects treat the discard as a tax you swallow to dig deeper; here the discard is the payoff. Pitch a creature card off the combat-damage loot trigger and you can spend two more mana to spawn an Eldrazi Horror token, so the cards you would normally regret tossing become the ones you most want to find. That inversion is the design idea: a filtering ability rebuilt into a token generator, one that rewards a creature-dense grip rather than the spell-heavy shells looters usually reward. Skulk solves the setup problem, letting a 1/1 slip past the bigger blockers to connect, and connection is what starts the chain. The body never grows, but the board does, and a single unblocked hit can spin off another Horror each turn the mana holds. The friction is real: the two-mana cost on every token, plus the need to keep drawing into creatures worth discarding, so the engine asks you to sustain both the attack and the fuel at once. Left alone with a full hand and open lands it snowballs; pressured, it stalls. What makes it quietly elegant is how much graveyard-adjacent value it wrings out without ever touching the graveyard: the discarded creatures are spent the instant they hit the bin, converted straight into bodies rather than banked for later recursion.

Wharf Infiltrator (clb)
CLB · #737rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay 2 generic mana. If you do, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

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