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Etched Familiar
Oracle Text
When this creature dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Etched Familiar is a small but efficient piece of black value, best suited to attrition, sacrifice, and grindy control decks that want every permanent to cash in on the way out. A 3/2 for three mana gives you a respectable body early, and the death trigger turns it into a mini-drain spell that stabilizes your life total while nickeling opponents down. In practice, it shines when you can control the timing of its demise: sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer-style effects, or any shell built around recurring creatures, make the Familiar much more than a disposable attacker. In March of the Machine’s Phyrexian-inflected world, it feels like a warped companion that helps its master survive the long war by leaving a poisonous parting gift. Pair it with cards that recur artifacts or creatures, or with effects that reward sacrificing artifacts, and it becomes a reliable source of incremental advantage in slower black decks.
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Character Background
Etched Familiar is a small but efficient piece of black value, best suited to attrition, sacrifice, and grindy control decks that want every permanent to cash in on the way out. A 3/2 for three mana gives you a respectable body early, and the death trigger turns it into a mini-drain spell that stabilizes your life total while nickeling opponents down. In practice, it shines when you can control the timing of its demise: sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer-style effects, or any shell built around recurring creatures, make the Familiar much more than a disposable attacker. In March of the Machine’s Phyrexian-inflected world, it feels like a warped companion that helps its master survive the long war by leaving a poisonous parting gift. Pair it with cards that recur artifacts or creatures, or with effects that reward sacrificing artifacts, and it becomes a reliable source of incremental advantage in slower black decks.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 17:20:43 UTC