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Watchful Automaton
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Aether RevoltAER · #182
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Construct
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.05 € · ★ 0.23 € · 0.04 $ · ★ 0.21 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Eric Deschamps
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2017-01-20
Flavour text
"Before we can destroy our enemies, we must find them. We must peer into every wretched hovel and every teeming market." —Baral, Chief of Compliance
Rulings
If you activate Watchful Automaton’s ability more than once, you’ll scry 1 each time. You won’t be able to look at multiple cards at once.