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Elspeth's Devotee

Creature — Human Soldier2 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

Fetch exactly one card, and only one: the enters trigger names Elspeth, Undaunted Hero and nothing else, which makes this a closed-loop design, a mechanically-linked creature cut to complete a single build-around. The pattern is a deliberate answer to a recurring problem: how to make a marquee planeswalker consistent to draw without printing a generic tutor that would warp the wider card pool. Restricting the search to one name is the fix. The 3/3 body is intentionally forgettable; the value lives entirely in the trigger, and the quiet part is that the dig reaches the graveyard as well as the library. That second clause is what widens the card's use past a plain library tutor: it can pull back a walker you already spent, softening an early discard or a countered payoff and turning the Devotee into a redundant copy rather than a fresh search. The trade-off is stated plainly on the card: four mana buys a creature that only digs, and because the target is locked by name, it is dead weight in any deck not running its namesake. Parasitic by intent, it functions only inside the pairing it was designed to serve, and asks nothing of the builder except that they honor the commitment.

Elspeth's Devotee (thb)
THB · #272rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Elspeth, Undaunted Hero, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
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
N/A
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