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Backwoods Survivalists

Creature — Human Warrior3 generic manaGreen mana

The 4/3 body for four mana is the tell: this is a green common built to reward a stocked graveyard rather than an emptied hand. Without delirium it is a fragile beater, generous on rate but easy to gang-block; satisfy the condition and it becomes a 5/4 trampler that stops trading down and shrugs off chump blockers. The whole design lives in that one threshold. Green wants to attack, and trample is the keyword that punishes the small blockers an aggressive board tends to face, so the payoff lands exactly where the color already wants to go. Delirium asks the deckbuilder to diversify the graveyard rather than stack it: a creature, an instant, a sorcery, and an enchantment or artifact gets there faster than ten dead creatures ever will, which nudges play toward self-mill and the kind of cheap noncreature spells a green shell does not normally bother with. The card doubles as a teaching tool, the common that forces a player to learn what counts as a card type and why one land plus one creature is not enough. Note what the boost is not: delirium is a single binary condition, so this is a body that reads as 4/3 or 5/4 with nothing in between, and it is a live, continuous check rather than a permanent upgrade. If exile, an opponent's graveyard hate, or your own recursion drops you back below four types, the trample and the extra point vanish until you rebuild the count.

Backwoods Survivalists (plst)
PLST · #EMN-150common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Delirium — This creature gets +1/+1 and has trample as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

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