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Dragon's Herald

Creature — Goblin ShamanRed mana

The whole card is a tutor pointed at exactly one address: Hellkite Overlord, an eight-mana Jund dragon you can instead deposit onto the battlefield for the cost of three small bodies and a turn's worth of mana. That specificity is the joke and the design constraint at once. A Goblin Shaman whose entire reason to exist is to cheat one named card into play is a build-around with a single destination, and the tax it charges is precise: you need a black creature, a red creature, and a green creature to feed it, which quietly mandates the same three-color identity the Overlord itself demands. It rewards the kind of board you assemble incidentally in a Jund creature deck, then converts that width into a single oversized threat. The Overlord arrives shuffled in from the deck rather than cast, so the sacrifice clause is doing the heavy lifting that mana would otherwise do: you trade three permanents you already control for a flying, trampling beater that would normally cost the back half of a game to hardcast. It is a curiosity built around a curiosity, the sort of hyper-specific tutor that treats one rare as the whole payoff and asks you to construct your entire creature base to satisfy its appetite.

Dragon's Herald (ala)
ALA · #98uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.41
Oracle Text

Rules text

2 generic manaRed mana, Tap, Sacrifice a black creature, a red creature, and a green creature: Search your library for a card named Hellkite Overlord, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

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