Federation Probe

Not legal in this format after release.

Not legal in this format after release.

A one-mana artifact body and surveil can merit testing in Affinity, but it is far lower-impact than Haywire Mite and weak outside artifact-count synergies.

Could be wrong if Dense artifact payoffs or repeatable artifact-creature recursion could make its low individual rate acceptable.

Surveil 1 on a 1/1 is far behind Legacy cantrips; artifact status offers only a speculative Urza's Saga or artifact-count niche.

Could be wrong if A newly optimized artifact shell could value a Saga-tutorable blue artifact more than current lists do.

Worse selection than Faerie Seer, but artifact typing gives it a credible distinct job as a cheap enabler in Grixis Affinity while retaining an evasive body.

Could be wrong if If artifact counts are already effortless, Faerie Seer's stronger selection and established alternatives will crowd it out.

A cheap artifact creature that surveils has a real recursion or artifact-synergy home, but one surveil and a 1/1 flyer are highly replaceable in singleton.

Could be wrong if A commander that repeatedly recurs or triggers from cheap artifacts could turn this into a more desirable engine piece.

A one-mana evasive body that surveils 1 is useful smoothing and can occasionally enable artifact synergies, but it has little battlefield impact by itself.

Could be wrong if Unknown archetypes, removal, and artifact payoffs could move it from filler to a more reliable early pick.