Snooping Newsie

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vintage Legal

Snooping Newsie

Creature — Human Rogue

When this enters the battlefield, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

As long as there are five or more mana values/converted mana costs among cards in your graveyard, this gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.

legendofa on Is this the end of …

1 year ago

TypicalTimmy I don't disagree, but looking at a selection of Standard common 2/2 2-drops, Alabaster Host Sanctifier, Goblin Picker, Snooping Newsie, Phyrexian Vivisector, Sporeback Wolf all have simple, easily tracked effects (once you learn the vocabulary) without being pure vanilla.

So right now, P/T average has to be above mana value for vanillas to compete. Green takes over the upper end of the creature mana curve at common, and 5-mana 4/4s appear to be the upper end of full color access without drawbacks. So, given that green and red are going to have bigger creatures than white and blue, what's the best P/T-mana ratio for a vanilla creature to compete with other common creatures? Should there be a vanilla 5/5 for at uncommon? Or more likely for the color, a 6/3, fully obsoleting Raging Poltergeist and Scoria Elemental?