Dwarven Explorer R
Creature - Dwarf
Whenever Dwarven Explorer deals damage a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card until end of turn.
1/1
Red doesn't have too much cheap card draw. We get cards like robber of the rich which has restrictive exile effects with some abilities. This feels closer to a red dark confidant, which may be a bit much for a standard set, but could slot into a modern horizons set. I don't think I need to adjust it to combat damage, since that isn't so easy otherwise. It dies to all removal and has no evasion.
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I really like this. It's exactly the kind of card where you look at it and say 'wait, why haven't they printed this already?'. If I wanted to push it for Eternal formats, I'd maybe give it First strike or (very pushed) Prowess. For Standard I might shift to only combat damage just in case there's some stupid three-card combo that lets you exile your whole deck somehow.
But this is absolutely rock solid stuff. Dwarf is a super smart choice of tribe too - not too many enablers to make it oppressive and makes sense flavor-wise. Great work!
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This depends what rarity you want this at. As a 1/1 with no evasion/combat keywords this could probably be a uncommon. At 2/1 or add first strike, this could be a rare/mythic.
This depends what rarity you want this at. As a 1/1 with no evasion/combat keywords this could probably be a uncommon. At 2/1 or add first strike, this could be a rare/mythic.
What rarity do you think this could be? I think the adjusted card below could be a rare. Fixed dark confidant like pain seer are printed as rares. Also Stromkirk Occultist is a worse version which I didn't know existed.
Dwarven Explorer 1R
Creature - Dwarf
Trample
Whenever Dwarven Explorer deals combat damage a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card until end of turn.
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
I actually think your two-mana version is weaker than the one-mana one, or at least it's hard to argue that it's stronger. Probably uncommon - drawing cards is a lot better than this effect and having multiples in limited is not too oppressive because you can probably only cast 1 spell even if you're hitting with two of these (also Pain Seer is pretty average). Maybe higher rarity if there's a load of tribal support in the environment or something, but in a vacuum, I'd say uncommon.
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The two mana version would either be uncommon or rare. The issue with it is that its vulnerable to chump blocks so either (a) it dies oand only nets you one card you can maybe play or (b) you play a combat trick to save it and you are then less able to play whatever it reveals.
Give it menace or first strike instead of trample and its a rare easily.
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Creature - Dwarf
Whenever Dwarven Explorer deals damage a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card until end of turn.
1/1
Red doesn't have too much cheap card draw. We get cards like robber of the rich which has restrictive exile effects with some abilities. This feels closer to a red dark confidant, which may be a bit much for a standard set, but could slot into a modern horizons set. I don't think I need to adjust it to combat damage, since that isn't so easy otherwise. It dies to all removal and has no evasion.
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
But this is absolutely rock solid stuff. Dwarf is a super smart choice of tribe too - not too many enablers to make it oppressive and makes sense flavor-wise. Great work!
What rarity do you think this could be? I think the adjusted card below could be a rare. Fixed dark confidant like pain seer are printed as rares. Also Stromkirk Occultist is a worse version which I didn't know existed.
Dwarven Explorer 1R
Creature - Dwarf
Trample
Whenever Dwarven Explorer deals combat damage a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card until end of turn.
2/1
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
Give it menace or first strike instead of trample and its a rare easily.