Anchor Your Draws
The Essence Anchor is a compact tool for blue decks that want consistent value and graveyard synergy. Essence Anchor combines steady library manipulation with a repeatable token engine; at the beginning of your upkeep it surveils one, letting you sculpt the top of your deck and feed the graveyard when you need it. The printed name sits cleanly on the frame and the card art shows hands steadying a shimmering disk that seems to pull thoughts into focus.
In practice Essence Anchor plays like a low cost engine piece. The activated ability produces a 2/2 black Zombie Druid token, which turns incremental surveil triggers into board presence when a card left your graveyard that turn. That conditional activation rewards decks that mill themselves or recur cards, and it slots well into control shells or graveyard focused builds from Tarkir formats. If you want predictable selection plus a small clock, add Essence Anchor to your list and test how it shifts tempo across turns.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {2}{U}
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Card Type – Artifact
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
T: Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token. Activate only during your turn and only if a card left your graveyard this turn.
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