Quick Swap Codebreaker
Fugitive Codebreaker is a tight, utility creature for red decks that want flexible tempo and card advantage. At a casting cost of {1}{R} you get a 2/1 Goblin Rogue with prowess and haste. The card rewards casting cheap spells to grow threats while offering a disguise mechanic that lets you cast it face down as a 2/2 with ward 2 for {3} and then pay a variable disguise cost to flip it and trigger its payoff.
Turn it face up during an attack to reset your hand in exchange for fresh gas. The flip ability reads like a deliberate trade. You discard your hand then draw three cards. That sequence can clear dead cards and find answers or finishers. In draft and limited the disguise cost reduction tied to instants and sorceries in your graveyard creates neat synergies. In constructed it slots into spell heavy builds that want low cost aggression plus midgame card selection.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost — {1}{R}
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Card Type — Creature
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Subtypes — Goblin Rogue
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) — Prowess, haste
Disguise 5R. This cost is reduced by 1 for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. (You may cast this card face down for 3 as a 2/2 creature with ward 2. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
When Fugitive Codebreaker is turned face up, discard your hand, then draw three cards. -
Power / Toughness — 2/1
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Rarity — Rare
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Set — Murders at Karlov Manor
