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Crystal Dragon // Rob the Hoard

Creature — Dragon // Sorcery — Adventure4 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana1 generic manaWhite mana

Regrowth has always lived in green, and the Adventure structure is the loophole that lets white borrow the effect without stepping on the color pie: the sorcery half reads as a self-contained recovery spell that happens to leave a Dragon in exile. The recursion is deliberately fenced. Not any card, but the specific slice white is allowed to care about (artifacts, enchantments, and legends), which keeps the return from being a straight green splash in white clothing. The two halves reward each other but stay honestly separate: casting the sorcery reclaims a graveyard-bound Equipment or a fallen legend, then exiles the card so the 4/4 flier waits for later. That later cast still demands the full six mana; the Adventure buys you tempo and a card back now, not a discount on the body. What it does buy is scheduling freedom. You spend two mana to rebuild your hand on a turn that has room for it, and you bank a flying, vigilant threat you deploy on your own clock, attacking and holding the ground it takes in the same turn. The whole package is a color-pie negotiation dressed as a Dragon: the beater is the reward, but the reason the card exists is to hand white a graveyard-to-hand recovery it rarely gets, and to hand it only for the card types white already has a claim on.

Crystal Dragon // Rob the Hoard (clb)
CLB · #13uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, vigilance // Return target artifact, enchantment, or legendary card from your graveyard to your hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Legalities

Format Status

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