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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.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{G}{W}{U}
Color identity
GUW
Rarity
rare
Set
The Brothers' War
Price
$0.17
EDHREC rank
#18272
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Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor card art
Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor turns every tapped artifact into a free Scry 1, which adds up fast in any artifact-heavy shell and goes infinite the moment Intruder Alarm enters the picture. Five mana for a 3/4 is the honest cost — fair, not exciting — but the payoff justifies the slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor is a Commander card — the format's slower pace and artifact-tribal options give the scry engine room to operate, and five mana is fine when you're building toward a combo finish. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, a five-mana 3/4 that only scrys doesn't compete with the formats' speed or their better artifact synergies, so expect it to stay on the shelf outside EDH. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander and is the one other format where it could plausibly appear.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

190 decks
Tocasia, Dig Site MentorIntruder AlarmStonybrook Schoolmaster

Tocasia, Dig Site MentorIntruder AlarmStonybrook Schoolmaster

Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite self-mill; Infinite surveil; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.17 bulk tier

At $0.17, Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor is deep bulk — you can pick up a copy without thinking about it. Bulk rares with narrow combo upside rarely move unless a new infinite line breaks into the mainstream, so don't expect this to leave the bargain bin anytime soon.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.