Corpse Augur (CMM)

Corpse Augur
Casting Cost: {3}{B}
Card Type: Creature - Zombie Wizard
Power/Toughness: 4/2

Card Text:
When Corpse Augur dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard.

Flavour Text:
Even when the flesh grows cold, knowledge waits in the bones for a master to release it.

Artist: Scott M. Fischer

Corpse Augur taps into the classic black magic themes of using death and the remains of the dead to gain power, albeit with a price. Its ability provides a potentially significant card draw, but it comes at the cost of life. Given that black is the color of paying life for resources and digging into graveyards for value, this creature epitomizes the color's willingness to make such trades. The flavor text reinforces this theme, hinting at the untapped knowledge and secrets that the dead hold, waiting for the right necromancer or scholar to come along and unlock it. The artist, Scott M. Fischer, would likely have illustrated the Augur amidst the act of necromantic divination, perhaps surrounded by bones or reading omens from a corpse.