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Cunning Survivor

{1}{U}

Creature — Human Warrior

HOUHour of Devastation#33common

Initiates who had been through the Trial of Knowledge learned to see everything as pieces of a larger puzzle.

Finishes
Nonfoil · Foil
Border
black
Frame
2015
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 652
Illustrator
Zoltan Boros
Found in
Hour of Devastation MTGO Redemption Foil · Hour of Devastation MTGO Redemption · 2 more
Printings1EDHREC rank#17,099
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
BrawlNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
GladiatorNot legal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
Future StandardNot legal
Whenever you cycle or discard a card, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
1/3
Plays as:
Cycling PayoffDiscard Payoff
Market · per finishspark updated 24h ago · prices as of 2026-08-29
Nonfoil0.0%
$0.26
$0.01 low$0.00 gapTCGplayer
Foil+25.0%
$0.15
$0.14 low$0.06 gapTCGplayer
Cheapest playable copy$0.15· across 1 printing· you're viewing it

Rulings

4 · latest Apr 18, 2017
  • WotCApr 18, 2017

    An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn’t give you permission to discard cards. You’ll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them.

  • WotCApr 18, 2017

    An ability that triggers whenever you “cycle or discard” a card triggers only once if you cycle a card. The ability “Whenever you discard a card” is functionally identical to this ability; cycling is mentioned for clarity.

  • WotCApr 18, 2017

    If a player discards a card during their cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one.

  • WotCApr 18, 2017

    Some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.