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Bounty of Skemfar

Sorcery2 generic manaGreen mana

This is dig-for-two folded into a single card: a green ramp spell that doubles as tribal card advantage, dividing its yield along the exact fault line an Elf deck cares about. Digging six deep, it lets you keep one land (onto the battlefield, tapped) and one Elf (into hand), which is the pairing that makes it work. Elf decks are famously mana-flooded engines that convert bodies into acceleration, so the split hands you a fixing piece and a threat in the same cast, then buries everything else at random on the bottom rather than binning it. The random-bottoming is the tax that keeps the selection honest: you get to see six but you do not get to choose your leftovers or set up a future draw, so the value is front-loaded into this cast alone. What separates it from a generic top-of-library shuffle is the tightness of the filter. It is not "grab two of anything"; it is one land and one Elf, a template that rewards a deck built around a single creature type rather than a goodstuff pile. That narrowness is also its ceiling: outside a dedicated Elf shell, it is a mediocre land tutor attached to a whiff. Inside one, it is the rare tribal payoff that also fixes your mana, filling the awkward gap between "I have Elves" and "I have the lands to cast the rest of them."

Bounty of Skemfar (j25)
J25 · #638uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Reveal the top six cards of your library. You may put up to one land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and up to one Elf card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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