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A-Sunbathing Rootwalla

Creature — Lizard1 generic manaGreen mana

The Rootwalla lineage was built on a fixed, repeatable pump: pay a little mana, get a small burst, do it again next turn. This rebalanced digital variant keeps that once-per-turn cadence but hands the size of the boost to domain, the mechanic that counts basic land types across your battlefield. That swaps a flat, predictable increment for a scaling one whose ceiling is set by how far your manabase reaches. A two-color deck gets a modest bump; a deck that reaches across the whole color pie turns the same activation into a threat that grows out of removal range. The elegant part is that domain is powered by the lands you already want: shocklands, typed dual taplands, and triomes each carry multiple basic land types, so widening the color spread and feeding the pump are the same act rather than competing ones. The "A-" prefix marks this as the Arena-only rebalance, distinct from the paper card whose numbers Wizards judged out of line. The 2/2 body for 1 generic manaGreen mana is intentionally forgettable on its own; all of the card's upside is gated behind a deckbuilding commitment to lands that count for domain, and the pump only cashes out if you actually assemble that spread. It is a study in how domain converts a flat combat trick into a variable one, with the manabase, not the mana cost, doing the pricing.

A-Sunbathing Rootwalla (dmu)
DMU · #A-181common
Oracle Text

Rules text

Domain — 1 generic manaGreen mana: Until end of turn, Sunbathing Rootwalla gets +1/+1 for each basic land type among lands you control. Activate only once each turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
N/A
Vintage
N/A
Commander
N/A
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
N/A
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
N/A
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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