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Deeproot Wayfinder

Creature — Merfolk Scout1 generic manaGreen mana

The two-drop that turns a fetchland click or a sacrificed manland into a recurring resource, but only if it connects. The surveil-then-reanimate-a-land trigger fires on combat damage to a player or battle, and that connection requirement is what balances the effect: this is a body that has to attack and land its hits to earn value, not a passive engine that grinds from the safety of the backline. A 2/3 is built precisely for that job, big enough to trade up or survive a swing back, small enough that nobody feels obligated to answer it before it has done its work. The surveil sets up the graveyard the same beat it feeds from it, so a fetchland you cracked early becomes a land drop a few turns later, replayed tapped. Merfolk who care about lands is a narrow enough space that the effect reads modest, but the loop it enables (attack, dig, rebuild your mana) favors decks running lands with enter-the-battlefield or self-sacrifice value over raw ramp. The tapped clause keeps the recursion from ever being free tempo: you get the land back, just never on the turn you would most want to spend it.

Deeproot Wayfinder (mom)
MOM · #369rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.36
Foil: $0.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, surveil 1, then you may return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
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
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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