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Clifftop Lookout

Creature — Frog Scout2 generic manaGreen mana

Land ramp with a body attached usually means paying full price for the creature and treating the land as a bonus, but the reveal-and-put-into-play template here is the older and more reliable half of the deal. Most green ramp that puts a land onto the battlefield asks you to pay a premium for consistency: this one digs blindly through the top of the library until it hits any land, guaranteeing a fixed drop even out of an empty hand, at the cost of not choosing which land you find or getting the card back into hand. The tapped land keeps it honest, so the effect accelerates toward next turn rather than the current one. What sets the design apart from a straight ramp spell is that the ramp is bolted to a creature that survives after it does its job: Reach on a 1/2 gives it a defensive role once the acceleration is spent, blocking fliers while the mana it fetched goes to work. That combination (an enters-the-battlefield ramp trigger stapled to a body that still matters in combat) turns a piece of fixing into something that can be flickered, reanimated, or simply left on the board as a wall. The randomization clause on the bottomed cards keeps the deck from being sculpted too cleanly, but for a creature whose whole point is smoothing your land drops, that is a fair tax.

Clifftop Lookout (blb)
BLB · #168uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.42
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach When this creature enters, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legalities

Format Status

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