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Buy on TCGplayerHaywire Mite
Artifact Creature — Insect
LegalRemovalRank #707
When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.
, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.
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Why is this card good?
Haywire Mite is the colorless-deck answer to a green-deck problem: cheap, repeatable artifact and enchantment removal that exiles. For just to cast and to activate, you get rid of nasty noncreature permanents — Smothering Tithe, Rhystic Study, Esper Sentinel, problematic equipment, or stax pieces like Winter Orb and Blood Moon.
The key word is exile, which sidesteps recursion, and the noncreature restriction is rarely a downside since green already kills creatures easily.
Why it's great:
- It's an artifact, so it works in artifact-matters and tinker/recursion shells (Goblin Welder, Daretti) and is fetchable by anything that grabs artifacts.
- Sacrificing it triggers death payoffs — fine in aristocrats — and the lifegain is minor upside.
- Single-target tutorable green interaction is rare, so this fills a real gap.
When to skip it: if you're not in green, you can't activate it. It's also slow — you're paying total and a card for one removal — so heavy interaction decks may prefer instant-speed enchantment removal instead.
to cast and to activate, you get rid of nasty noncreature permanents — Smothering Tithe, Rhystic Study, Esper Sentinel, problematic equipment, or stax pieces like Winter Orb and Blood Moon.
The key word is exile, which sidesteps recursion, and the noncreature restriction is rarely a downside since green already kills creatures easily.
Why it's great:
- It's an artifact, so it works in artifact-matters and tinker/recursion shells (Goblin Welder, Daretti) and is fetchable by anything that grabs artifacts.
- Sacrificing it triggers death payoffs — fine in aristocrats — and the lifegain is minor upside.
- Single-target tutorable green interaction is rare, so this fills a real gap.
When to skip it: if you're not in green, you can't activate it. It's also slow — you're paying total and a card for one removal — so heavy interaction decks may prefer instant-speed enchantment removal instead.Related cards
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Printings (5)
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Combos (8)
- Mortuary + Ashnod's Altar + Haywire Mite + Bolas's Citadel
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers
- Mortuary + Viscera Seer + Haywire Mite + Bolas's Citadel
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers
- Mortuary + Phyrexian Altar + Haywire Mite + Bolas's Citadel
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite colored mana
- Mortuary + Altar of Dementia + Haywire Mite + Bolas's Citadel
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite death triggers
- Mortuary + Woe Strider + Haywire Mite + Bolas's Citadel
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers
- Mortuary + Umbral Collar Zealot + Haywire Mite + Bolas's Citadel
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers