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Diligent Zookeeper

Creature — Human Citizen Ally3 generic manaGreen mana

A tribal lord that pays out on breadth rather than depth. Most anthem creatures care about a single named type: Elf lords buff Elves, Goblin lords buff Goblins, and a two-type creature counts once toward each. This one inverts that math. It scans your non-Human creatures and rewards the ones stapling together the most creature types, so a lone Dragon gets +1/+1 while a Beast Dinosaur Dragon climbs three steps at once. That reframes deckbuilding around the modern glut of hyphenated type lines: a card that reads as a mediocre body on its own becomes a threat the moment it carries four or five subtypes. The maximum of ten is the ceiling that keeps the effect from spiraling on a creature with a comically stacked type line, and it caps the bonus well below where a single dork could end games unassisted. Note the exclusion clause is doing real load-bearing work: the buff skips your Humans entirely, which quietly pushes you toward the exotic end of the creature pool and away from the tribes green usually leans on. It is a lord that asks a different deckbuilding question than any other: not "how many of one thing do I have" but "how much is each thing pretending to be."

Diligent Zookeeper (ptla)
PTLA · #171srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Each non-Human creature you control gets +1/+1 for each of its creature types, to a maximum of 10.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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