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Caravan Vigil

SorceryGreen mana

Rampant Growth's clause structure with a graveyard tax bolted on. Most one-mana green ramp of this kind splits into two families: search-to-hand fixing like Lay of the Land, and search-to-battlefield acceleration that costs more or comes off a creature. Caravan Vigil collapses both into a single spell and lets the board state decide which one you cast. With nothing dead this turn it is a humble basic-land tutor, smoothing your draw; let a creature die and the same mana puts that land directly onto the battlefield, untapped, turning a fixing card into genuine acceleration. The morbid condition is the meter that prices the upgrade: you do not get the ramp for free, you get it for proving the turn has already turned violent. That makes the card a quiet read on tempo. In a stalled or grinding game where creatures are trading, morbid is trivially online and the spell ramps; in a clean curve-out it does the modest fixing job and asks nothing. The restriction to basics is the other half of the bargain, keeping the effect honest in nonbasic-heavy builds while rewarding decks that lean on Forests and Plains. It is a small card, but a precisely engineered one: a single spell that bends from search-to-hand fixing to ramp on a condition the game tells you about, rather than one you have to manufacture.

Caravan Vigil (isd)
ISD · #173common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $1.58
Oracle Text

Rules text

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Morbid — You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
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