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Beastcaller Savant

Creature — Elf Shaman Ally1 generic manaGreen mana

The haste is not for attacking; it is for tapping. A normal accelerant lands with summoning sickness and sits inert the turn it arrives, so its mana ability only comes online a turn later. Haste closes that gap: cast this on turn two and it taps for mana that same turn, giving you an immediate one-mana rebate to spend on a creature. It does not ramp a full turn ahead of a vanilla dork (by turn three the totals even out); what it buys is tempo on the turn it enters, a cheaper creature deployed early when that early board presence matters most. The restriction is what shapes the rest. The mana arrives in any color but only ever goes toward a creature spell, which walls it off from rituals, noncreature ramp, and combo plumbing and pins it to lists built mostly out of bodies. That narrowing is the point: a creature-dense green deck can splash an off-color threat and cast it on curve without warping the manabase, because the fixing shows up exactly where and when a board-flooding shell wants it. The body is fragile and mostly beside the point once the ability is active; it is a removal magnet, not a clock. What two mana buys is color-fixing and a tempo discount stapled to the same permanent, suited to go-wide and tribal shells where every creature is expected to do more than its stats suggest.

Beastcaller Savant (bfz)
BFZ · #170rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.72
Foil: $2.70
Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste Tap: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
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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