Compass Gnome

The old land-fetching body, ported into colorless and given a second address to search. The base function has drifted around the color pie for over a decade: a small creature that, on entering, tutors a basic and stacks it as your next draw, smoothing a future turn at the cost of tempo rather than card advantage. It sets up the draw; it does not draw the card. What justifies this printing is the branching target: the same search can grab a Cave instead of a basic, tying the effect directly to a subtheme built around Cave lands and giving decks that care about that land-typing a fixer plus a body that advances their plan. That mode is the reason the design exists; without it, this is a familiar shape wearing a new frame. The tension is the one every card of this shape carries: because the land arrives as a queued draw rather than a played permanent, the tutor is a delayed payoff, so it wants to be cast a turn ahead of the shortage rather than in answer to one. Landing on the colorless side of the pie as an artifact creature widens where it fits, counting toward artifact synergies and dodging the color commitment a green version demanded. Modest on rate, deliberate in purpose: a fixer whose Cave line is the only thing worth building around.