Confession Dial
Mana Cost:
Type: Artifact
Oracle Text:
When this artifact enters, surveil 3.
{T}: Target legendary creature card in your graveyard gains escape until end of turn. The escape cost is equal to its mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast it from your graveyard for its escape cost this turn.)
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Doctor Who
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Character Background
Confession Dial is a prison bell disguised as a tool of confession: you get immediate value with surveil 3 when it enters, filtering your graveyard toward the exact legendary answers or threats you want next. The real power is its activated ability—turning a legendary creature in your graveyard into an escaped monster for a turn—letting you leap from “spent” to “in play” without spending extra turns. Because the escape cost scales with the creature’s mana cost plus exile three other graveyard cards, you should build for plentiful graveyard fodder: include cheap self-milling, recurring discard, or dead-simple value creatures that trade off well when exiled. This supports a control-to-combo or value plan, stabilizing first while converting long-term setup into sudden board presence. Run synergy with decks that reliably stock the graveyard (and ideally multiple legendary creatures) so the Dial always has a target and the exile-three clause doesn’t strip away your key engines.
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