A-Cobbled Lancer
VOW · uncommon · Released 2022-02-24
Power
Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).
Derived from the 7 atoms below.
above rate
does nothing alone
needs a shell
scales up
multiple modes
broadly useful
easily answered
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Rationale
A 1-mana 3/3 in blue is exceptional rate, but requires exiling a creature card from your graveyard as an additional cost — making it a self-mill payoff rather than a standalone threat. The activated ability (1U, exile from graveyard: draw a card) adds late-game graveyard value. Signature in Arena Brawl self-mill shells where graveyard fueling is easy; not legal in Commander, and in Limited it's a premium early beater if any graveyard setup exists.
Learnings (3)
The 'A-' prefix indicates this is an Arena-only rebalanced version of a card — it is legal in Brawl but not in paper Commander, so bracket_relevant reflects only casual/Brawl brackets.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Despite being a Zombie Horse, the card's primary value is as a stat-efficient self-mill payoff in blue, not as a tribal piece — blue zombie and horse synergies are sparse in the Arena Brawl card pool.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
The activated ability exiles the Lancer from the graveyard to draw a card, meaning it can only be used once per graveyard cycle and does NOT recur without reanimation — do not overrate it as a repeatable draw engine.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6