Cunning Survivor (HOU #33) MTG

Cunning Survivor is a common printing from Hour of Devastation (HOU #33), a Creature — Human Warrior. Illustrated by Zoltan Boros.

Card text

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

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

As of 2026-10-19, Scryfall listed this printing at non-foil $0.28, foil $0.19 (USD). Prices change constantly, so check the live price before buying.

April 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.
April 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.
April 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.
April 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.

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