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Microscope
Oracle Text
{T}: Surveil 1.
{T}: Target permanent card in a graveyard becomes a 0/0 black Germ creature in addition to its other colors and types until end of turn. (This effect ends if it leaves the graveyard.)
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Mana CostCharacter Background
Microscope is a deceptively odd little artifact that plays like a laboratory tool for a patient, grindy strategy. Its first mode, surveil 1, steadily smooths draws and stockpiles graveyard resources, making it especially appealing in control and value shells that want to dig for answers without wasting mana. The second ability is the real puzzle piece: turning a permanent card in a graveyard into a 0/0 black Germ until end of turn can enable sacrifice synergies, trigger “when a creature dies” effects, or simply let you temporarily animate a key card for niche interactions with blink, reanimation, or graveyard-matters cards. Deckbuilders should look for self-mill, token sacrifice payoffs, and effects that care about creature types entering or leaving the graveyard. In practice, Microscope rewards tight sequencing and careful resource management, letting you convert dead cardboard into incremental advantage while quietly setting up a longer game.
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Character Background
Microscope is a deceptively odd little artifact that plays like a laboratory tool for a patient, grindy strategy. Its first mode, surveil 1, steadily smooths draws and stockpiles graveyard resources, making it especially appealing in control and value shells that want to dig for answers without wasting mana. The second ability is the real puzzle piece: turning a permanent card in a graveyard into a 0/0 black Germ until end of turn can enable sacrifice synergies, trigger “when a creature dies” effects, or simply let you temporarily animate a key card for niche interactions with blink, reanimation, or graveyard-matters cards. Deckbuilders should look for self-mill, token sacrifice payoffs, and effects that care about creature types entering or leaving the graveyard. In practice, Microscope rewards tight sequencing and careful resource management, letting you convert dead cardboard into incremental advantage while quietly setting up a longer game.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 20:20:43 UTC