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Paradox Surveyor
Oracle Text
Reach
When this creature enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a land card or a card with {X} in its mana cost from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Paradox Surveyor looks tailor-made for a value-oriented Simic or green-heavy midrange shell, where it can stabilize early and smooth draws without sacrificing board presence. As a 3/3 with reach for three mana, it blocks fliers well, which matters in slower matchups, and the enters-the-battlefield trigger helps you dig for either a land drop or a payoff with {X} in its cost. That makes it especially appealing in ramp, control, or combo lists built around scalable spells like enormous card-draw effects, modal X finishers, or mana sinks that convert excess resources into inevitability. In gameplay terms, it is best used to keep tempo from slipping while improving card quality, not as a pure aggressor. Deckbuilding-wise, it pairs nicely with shuffle effects and top-deck manipulation, since seeing five cards becomes better when you can reset or stack your library, and it rewards construction with a healthy count of lands and X spells so the trigger is rarely dead.
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Character Background
Paradox Surveyor looks tailor-made for a value-oriented Simic or green-heavy midrange shell, where it can stabilize early and smooth draws without sacrificing board presence. As a 3/3 with reach for three mana, it blocks fliers well, which matters in slower matchups, and the enters-the-battlefield trigger helps you dig for either a land drop or a payoff with {X} in its cost. That makes it especially appealing in ramp, control, or combo lists built around scalable spells like enormous card-draw effects, modal X finishers, or mana sinks that convert excess resources into inevitability. In gameplay terms, it is best used to keep tempo from slipping while improving card quality, not as a pure aggressor. Deckbuilding-wise, it pairs nicely with shuffle effects and top-deck manipulation, since seeing five cards becomes better when you can reset or stack your library, and it rewards construction with a healthy count of lands and X spells so the trigger is rarely dead.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-03 10:40:45 UTC