Survey Mechan
Mana Cost:
Type: Artifact Creature — Robot
Oracle Text:
Flying
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
{10}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 3 damage to any target. Target player draws three cards and gains 3 life. This ability costs {X} less to activate, where X is the number of differently named lands you control.
Power/Toughness: 1/3
Rarity: uncommon
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Edge of Eternities
Price ( USD): $0.20
USD: $0.20 · EUR: €0.14
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Character Background
Survey Mechan reads like a late‑game value engine best suited to control or midrange decks that can exploit a wide mana base: a cheap-to-protect 1/3 flying with hexproof stalls attacks and dodges targeted removal while its sacrifice trigger scales down with the number of differently named lands you own. The real payoff is in land‑diversity builds — triomes, shocklands, checklands, fetches and unique utility lands make the {10} threshold trivial in multiplayer formats, frequently turning the ability into a single or very small mana push to ping a planeswalker or opponent while you draw three and gain three. Deckbuilding tip: prioritize differently named lands and include blink/recursion or artifact‑return effects so you can reuse the body after sacrificing it (or recur it from grave), and pair with tempo tools that capitalize on a protected flying blocker. Thematically it feels like a surveying automaton that channels territorial knowledge into a calibrated strike, rewarding careful land planning more than raw speed.
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