Tunnel the Draw

Brass's Tunnel-Grinder is a compact artifact that turns digging into card advantage. For {2}{R} you get an enter the battlefield trigger that lets you discard any number of cards and then draw that many plus one. This makes it a tidy fit in red strategies that want to refill after looting, fuel graveyard synergies, or set up a big spell while still improving your hand size.

The Grinder also advances a transform route. If you descended this turn it gains a bore counter at your end step. When it accumulates three or more bore counters it removes them and transforms, rewarding decks that put permanents into the graveyard from anywhere. Brass's Tunnel-Grinder plays well as a tempo tool and a setup piece in archetypes that leverage discard, graveyard recursion, or chainable draw effects.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost – {2}{R}
• Card Type – Legendary Artifact
• Subtypes –
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – When Brass's Tunnel-Grinder enters the battlefield, discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards plus one. At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a bore counter on Brass's Tunnel-Grinder. Then if there are three or more bore counters on it, remove those counters and transform it. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
• Power / Toughness –
• Loyalty –