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Eye of Duskmantle: Graveyard Gatekeeper

Eye of Duskmantle rewards careful setup and disciplined sequencing. This three eight flyer with lifelink turns surveillance into a resource by letting you play lands and cast spells from among surveilled cards in your graveyard this turn. The tradeoff is precise and predictable you forego a mana cost and instead pay life equal to the spell's mana value. That makes this card a powerful engine in a Dimir build that plans its graveyard interactions and life totals.

Bring this Eye into decks that already surveil and cheat value back from the bin. Use cheap evasive creatures and incremental surveillance to enable bigger plays later. Against control and attrition strategies the lifelink matters. In multiplayer the ability to convert graveyard cards into immediate answers can close out games or stabilize a fragile board state. The art and mechanics fit the set tone by blending investigation style leanings with the Dimir preference for resource conversion.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost – {5}{B}{B}
• Card Type – Creature
• Subtypes – Eye
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Flying, lifelink You may play lands and cast spells from among cards in your graveyard you’ve surveilled this turn. If you cast a spell this way, you pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.
• Power / Toughness – 3/8