Paleontologist's Pick-Axe (Commander: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan) Near Mint Foil

Dig and Draw Efficiency

Paleontologist's Pick-Axe is a compact tool for decks that want steady card advantage tied to combat. It costs {2} to cast and sits patiently as an artifact equipment that rewards attacking creatures by triggering a one for one sift when they swing. Equip 1 makes it cheap to move around and keep early pressure, while the draw then discard sequence smooths your hand and fuels graveyard synergies without turning the game into a card draw race.

The craft clause offers an alternate late game plan. Craft with one or more creatures 5 lets you exile the artifact plus creatures and creature cards from your yard to return it transformed under your control. That interaction reads well in decks that plan around recursion and sacrificial value. As a Near Mint Foil from Commander: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan this copy is a clean collectible that performs in Commander shells that prize incremental advantage and graveyard engineering.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost – {2}
• Card Type – Artifact — Equipment
• Subtypes – Equipment
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card, then discard a card. Equip 1. Craft with one or more creatures 5 (5, Exile this artifact, Exile one or more creatures you control and/or creature cards from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
• Power / Toughness – N A