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Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
Creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Surveil 1." (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) {2}{G}{G}{W}{W}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Return any number of target artifact cards with total mana value 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
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“Tap creatures to surveil, then reanimate artifacts for a explosive finish”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Alt-win
Tokens, Reanimator, Artifact
Strategy
Tocasia is your artifact graveyard engine that turns every creature into a surveying machine. Your gameplan is to build a wide board of cheap creatures and artifacts, tap them for card filtering through surveil, and stock your graveyard with artifact payoffs. Over time, you'll accumulate powerful artifacts in the bin—then cash them in with Tocasia's back half to reanimate them as a game-ending swing or board presence. This deck plays like midrange value town: you're grinding card advantage, filling the graveyard deliberately, and converting that advantage into a haymaker turn where you dump multiple artifacts back onto the battlefield.
The core engine combines token generators (affinity creatures, artifact tokens, Young Wolf effects) with mana sinks to activate surveil repeatedly. You want cheap artifact creatures and Myr tokens that tap for value, alongside artifact payoffs like Darksteel Citadel or Cranial Plating that do work both in hand and from the yard. Think of Tocasia as the glue holding together a "good stuff" artifact-focused deck where vigilance means your creatures stay threatening while generating information.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip the expensive fetchlands and dual lands—basic Green/White/Blue with Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse works fine. Replace Mox Diamond with Llanowar Elves.
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