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Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic

Creature — Badger Druid // Instant — Adventure3 generic manaGreen mana2 generic manaGreen mana

The two-front design is a self-assembling mana engine folded into a single card. The creature half turns every Fungus and Saproling you control into a Llanowar Elves, then feeds that anthem its own fodder, minting a Saproling at the beginning of each of your end steps. On its own the timing does nothing special for ramp speed, since any freshly created token has summoning sickness and cannot tap for green until it has been under your control since your most recent turn began. The end-step trigger simply means the board grows steadily without asking anything of your main phase. Where the Adventure earns its place is in front-loading that board: cast Fungus Frolic first and you drop two Saprolings immediately, so by the time the Badger comes down from exile it arrives to an anthem target that has already shed its sickness and taps into green on the turn the creature resolves.

What keeps the payoff honest is how narrowly the tap grant reads. It touches only Fungus and Saproling, not the whole battlefield, so this is no board-wide Cryptolith Rite: the reward scales strictly with how deep you are into the tribe. Stripped of that context, the Badger is a 3/4 that dribbles out a single 1/1 a turn. Committed to it, the Frolic-then-Badger line becomes a one-card ramp package that manufactures the very tokens it wants to see tapping. The narrowness is the point; it is a tribal reward wearing a value creature's clothes.

Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic (blc)
BLC · #62rare
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Normal: $3.51
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Rules text

Each Fungus and Saproling you control has "Tap: Add Green mana." At the beginning of your end step, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. // Create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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