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Drover of the Mighty

Creature — Human Druid1 generic manaGreen mana

Two-mana mana dorks that fix any color usually arrive as a 1/1 with a tap ability, and that fragile body is the rate the fixing has to justify. The conditional +2/+2 here does more than its slot suggests: control a single Dinosaur and the dork stops being a delicate accelerant and becomes a 3/3 that can hold the ground while it ramps. That is the quiet trick of the design. Most ramp creatures want to stay back and produce mana; this one rewards a board that has already deployed a threat by turning the leftover accelerant into a real blocker or a relevant attacker, so a tribal deck never has a dead enabler clogging the curve. The tension it resolves is the perennial problem of accelerant cards becoming embarrassing in the late game: a topdecked mana dork is usually a blank, but one that carries a 3/3 body with color fixing still attached is closer to a card you would have happily drawn anyway. Crucially, the bonus is static, not a triggered one-shot: as long as any Dinosaur sits on the battlefield, the creature simply is a 3/3, and it snaps back to a 1/1 the moment that Dinosaur leaves. Nothing has to be spent to maintain it, which makes the buff less a synergy payoff than a baseline upgrade for anyone already committed to the creature type.

Drover of the Mighty (lcc)
LCC · #239uncommon
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Normal: $0.32
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you control a Dinosaur. Tap: Add one mana of any color.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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