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Alania's Pathmaker

Creature — Otter Wizard3 generic manaRed mana

Impulse-draw stapled to a body, priced so the body is the cost and the card is the payoff. The trick that makes it more than a vanilla 4/2 is the window: the exiled card is playable until the end of your next turn, not just this one. That extra turn is the whole design. A one-shot impulse draw off the top pressures you to spend the card immediately or lose it, which punishes clunky hands and lands; the two-turn clock instead lets you hold a fetched instant for a combat trick or a removal spell for the right target, and lets you sequence around your mana rather than against it. It converts a body that dies to almost anything into a two-for-one that already banked its value on the way in, so trading it away in combat costs you nothing you had not already collected. The 4/2 line is the honest part of the exchange: this hits hard and folds to a stiff breeze, which is exactly the aggressive-tempo register where a card that refuels while attacking wants to live. Otter Wizard is the kind of typing that quietly matters more than the stat line suggests, feeding the spell-count and creature-type payoffs that red-adjacent decks lean on.

Alania's Pathmaker (blb)
BLB · #123common
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.22
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
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
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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