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Creature — Human Shaman1 generic manaRed mana

Red has rummaged since its earliest years: throw a card away, then draw one, filtering your hand at the price of whatever hit the graveyard. That discard was always a real cost, the pitched card simply gone. The back half of this two-drop dissolves that cost. Whenever you discard one or more nonland cards, you may exile one from your graveyard and cast it that turn, so the thing you threw away becomes a card you can re-buy at full price on the same turn. The trigger fires on any nonland discard, not just this creature's own rummaging, which wires it to every madness-adjacent outlet and every effect that makes you pitch spells. The front-half attack ability (pay a mana and discard before you draw) exists to feed the back half, turning each combat step into a filtered draw plus a window to recast whatever it just discarded. The designers had to keep a repeatable rummage-and-recast engine on a cheap aggressive body from snowballing, which is why the recast is walled to the turn you discard and the mana still has to come from somewhere. What lifts it above a marginal red two-drop is the conversion it makes: discard stops being a tax on card selection and starts being a way to deploy cards, a trade red rarely gets to make on this kind of rate.

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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay 1 generic mana and discard a card. If you do, draw a card. Whenever you discard one or more nonland cards, you may exile one of them from your graveyard. If you do, you may cast it this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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