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Centaur Omenreader

Snow Creature — Centaur Shaman3 generic manaGreen mana

The cost reducer that asks you to commit it, not protect it. Most ramp wants to stay alive and untapped, ready to be tapped for mana again next turn; this one inverts that instinct, because the discount only fires while the body is tapped. That makes the obvious enabler an attack or a tap-for-mana effect: send it in, accept the open board state, and the rest of your creatures land at two less apiece for as long as it stays down. The 2 generic mana-off applies to every creature spell while the condition holds, so two or three drops cascade out cheaply once it's online. The friction is that the cheapest way to tap it is also the riskiest, swinging a 3/3 into open mana, and an untap step turns the engine back off until you find another way to lay it sideways. It reads as a snow creature, a tribal hook the era was fond of attaching to fixing and payoffs, but the relevant text owes nothing to that supertype; the discount works the same in any deck willing to keep it tapped. A genuinely strange knob for a green four-drop: ramp that costs you a blocker rather than a card, and rewards a player who already wanted to be the aggressor.

Centaur Omenreader (fut)
FUT · #143uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.36
Foil: $6.06
Oracle Text

Rules text

As long as this creature is tapped, creature spells you cast cost 2 generic mana less to cast.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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