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Ainok Wayfarer

Creature — Dog Scout1 generic manaGreen mana

Green has paid two mana to fetch a land into hand since the early days of the color: Sylvan Ranger, Borderland Ranger, and Civic Wayfinder all fill the same slot with a guaranteed tutor. What separates this one is the branch. Milling three replaces the guaranteed dig with a self-mill peek, then forks on the result you choose: take a land into hand and leave the body a fragile 1/1, or decline the land and pump the creature to a 2/2 that has already stocked three cards in the yard. That is a deliberate tension. The land you want most (the smoothing every ramp-shaped green deck wants) is also the outcome that leaves the creature weakest, while passing on the land hands you a marginally better attacker and graveyard fuel. Both halves serve different decks, which is the point: the same three milled cards read as fixing to a ramp shell and as engine fodder to a graveyard shell, and which one you want depends on which you built. The choice resolves at instant clarity, after the cards hit the graveyard, so the pilot sees exactly what is there before deciding whether smoothing or a bigger body matters more this turn. The mill happens either way, which is the quiet part: even when you take the land, three cards are now in the yard, and a green deck that cares about that has been paid twice.

Ainok Wayfarer (tdm)
TDM · #134common
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, mill three cards. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. If you don't, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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Old School
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Premodern
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PreDH
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Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
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COMPETITIVEBRAWL
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TLR
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