Deep Sea Scribe
Benthic Biomancer is a compact blue one drop that offers incremental advantage for decks that care about counters or card selection. It arrives as a 1 1 merfolk wizard mutant and can pay one and a blue to adapt for a single +1 +1 counter when it has none. The adapt trigger is straightforward to sequence and rewards repeatable interaction with your own pump effects or with opponents that remove counters.
Beyond being a cheap creature, the real value is the draw then discard whenever one or more +1 +1 counters are placed on it. That effect turns incremental growth into consistent selection, making this card a solid inclusion when you want card quality without giving up tempo. In lore terms it feels like a lab technician of the depths who trades physical change for insight and keeps the sea charts tidy.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {U}
- Card Type – Creature
- Subtypes – Merfolk Wizard Mutant
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – 1U: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1 +1 counters on it, put a +1 +1 counter on it.) Whenever one or more +1 +1 counters are put on Benthic Biomancer, draw a card, then discard a card.
- Power / Toughness – 1/1
- Set – Commander The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Rarity – Rare
- Language – English
- Condition – Near Mint