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Elvish Reclaimer

Creature — Elf WarriorGreen mana

Knight of the Reliquary in miniature, a full generation earlier on the curve. The activated ability is the same engine: sacrifice a land, fetch any land straight to the battlefield, and let the graveyard fill until the body swells to a 3/4. The difference is the clock. Knight of the Reliquary wants three mana and a grinding midrange plan; this one lands on turn one, then spends the early turns arming both the buff and the tutor before the opponent has committed. What makes the design sing is the breadth of the target: it fetches any land, not just basics, so a single utility land in the deck (a manland, a graveyard-hate land, a combo piece like Dark Depths) becomes a tutorable answer or wincon accessible off a one-mana body. The exchange is land-neutral in count (the sacrificed land is replaced by whatever you search up), but it is not free: the two-mana activation and the tapped land entering both mean every use is a real tempo commitment on the turn it happens. The +2/+2 is a static condition, not a payoff you activate: it holds only while three or more land cards sit in your graveyard, so the beater wants a deck actively feeding lands to the yard through fetchlands and cycling rather than simply ramping. This is a card built for decks with specific lands worth searching for; run it beside a pile of spells and it is a 1/2 that does nothing.

Elvish Reclaimer (pm20)
PM20 · #169srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are three or more land cards in your graveyard. 2 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice a land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then 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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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