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Ambuscade Shaman

Creature — Orc Shaman2 generic manaBlack mana

The trigger fires on any creature you control entering, including this one, which makes the dash cost the interesting part rather than a footnote. Pay the alternate cost and the Shaman pumps itself the moment it arrives, swinging as a hasty 4/4 for the turn before bouncing home; cast a second creature that same turn and that one grows too, while the Shaman's own buff still hangs around. The card is built around the rhythm of a board that empties and refills: each new body is a +2/+2 anthem trigger stapled to whatever else it does, and dash lets the anthem itself reset every turn so an opponent never gets a clean stretch to stabilize. The 2/2 base is the price of that flexibility, keeping the floor honest when nothing else is hitting the battlefield. It rewards a go-wide board that develops in waves rather than dumping its hand at once, since the value scales with how many enters-the-battlefield events you can string across a turn. Underneath the tribal orc-shaman flavor the structure is a recurring combat-trick engine: a creature that turns tempo-positive deployment into damage, and uses haste-and-bounce to stay just out of reach of sorcery-speed removal between attacks.

Ambuscade Shaman (dtk)
DTK · #87uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.49
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, that creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Dash 3 generic manaBlack mana (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
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
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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