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Beastbond Outcaster

Creature — Human Druid2 generic manaGreen mana

The trap in the enter trigger is a one-point gap: a 3/3 body can't satisfy its own condition, since the printed threshold asks for a creature with power 4 or greater already on the battlefield. Fire this on an empty board and it's a 3/3 Human Druid whose trigger never fires; the cantrip only shows up when a real beater has landed first. Plot is the elegant fix. Pay 1 generic manaGreen mana to exile it on a turn when you can spare the mana, deploy your fatty in the meantime, then recast the Outcaster from exile for free with the precondition already true, converting a maybe-draw into a guaranteed one. The result is a two-turn sequence you steer rather than a coin flip on your enter trigger. Green's usual "reward for going big" payoffs ask for a splashy up-front commitment; this one asks for patience instead, letting you bank the body until its precondition is real. That's the quiet argument the card makes about Plot: the mechanic's most disciplined use here isn't dodging a removal spell but timing a conditional trigger to resolve exactly when it pays. The Druid body is filler on its own, and the card knows it. Everything worth having is in the sequencing, in choosing to spend the setup cost early so the recast collects a card the moment the board catches up.

Beastbond Outcaster (otj)
OTJ · #154uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Plot 1 generic manaGreen mana (You may pay 1 generic manaGreen mana and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Legalities

Format Status

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