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Curious Forager

Creature — Squirrel Druid2 generic manaGreen mana

Regrowth stapled to a body, but the cost is the interesting part. Green has recurred permanents from the graveyard for the whole history of the game, and it has almost always done so by paying mana or by trading a card. Here the price is forage: exile three cards or sacrifice a Food, which converts graveyard depth (or a token that was probably a byproduct of something else) into permanent recursion. That reframes the payment from "spend resources" to "spend the resources you have already used." The return is deliberately broad, hitting any permanent card, so in one deck it fetches a land back and in another it retrieves a Sword or a toolbox creature, but the ceiling is checked by the exile clause: burning three cards to buy back one is a real cost in any deck that wants its graveyard for something else. That tension, wanting a full yard to forage from while wanting to preserve it for later, is the whole reason the effect is priced on a 3/2 rather than a bare spell. The trigger is also conditional twice over: it only fires on entry, and forage itself is a "may" that needs fuel, so an empty graveyard and no Food leaves you with a vanilla body. It rewards a deck already generating the incidental resources the mechanic asks for, and does nothing to build that engine itself.

Curious Forager (blb)
BLB · #169uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may forage. When you do, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.)
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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