Mechanical Mobster
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This printing
SetOM1
Collector #163
Released2025-09-23
Raritycommon
ArtistCaio Monteiro
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Mechanical Mobster

CommonMV 3
Artifact Creature — Human Robot Villain
When this creature enters, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. Target creature you control connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
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Keywords
Connive
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2025-09-26Newest 2025-09-26Cheapest priced $0.12 in SPM
Rulings (3)
wotc19 Sept 2025
If no card is discarded, most likely because that player's hand is empty and an effect says they can't draw cards, the conniving creature does not receive a +1/+1 counter.
wotc19 Sept 2025
If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to connive but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still connives. If you discard a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything. Abilities that trigger "when [that creature] connives" will trigger.
wotc19 Sept 2025
Once an ability that causes a creature to connive begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard a nonland card but before it receives a counter.