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Archivist
- Creature - Human Wizard
: Draw a card.- "Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts." —Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
- 1/1
- Pete Venters (Urza's Legacy) - Donato Giancola (Seventh Edition, Eighth Edition, Ninth Edition)
- Rare (Urza's Legacy, Seventh Edition, Eighth Edition, Ninth Edition)
Archivist was originally released on February 1999 with the release of the Urza's Legacy Magic The Gathering edition. This card has since been reprinted in 4 sets, with 2 artists contributing to the various card designs.
With the release of the Seventh Edition version of Archivist on April 2, 2001, The flavortext on Archivist was modified to read: "Knowledge is a feast for the mind. Savor every swallow."
With the release of the Eighth Edition version of Archivist on July 28, 2003, The flavortext on Archivist was modified to read: "Words—so innocent and powerless are they, as standing in a dictionary; how potent for good and evil they become to one who knows how to combine them!" —Nathaniel Hawthorne
With the release of the Ninth Edition version of Archivist on July 29, 2005, The flavortext on Archivist was modified to read: "Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts." —Mary Harris "Mother" Jones