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Foraging Wickermaw

Artifact Creature — Scarecrow2 generic mana

A colorless body that solves its own color problem. The activated ability is the interesting piece: for one generic mana it pulls any color out of the ether and, incidentally, paints the Scarecrow that color until end of turn. That second clause is not decoration; a creature that can become any color on demand slides into color-matters synergies, dodges protection and color-hosed removal, and enables costs that ask for a creature of a specific color. Scarecrows have long lived in this design space (colorless artifact bodies that borrow relevance from the colors around them), and this one carries the tradition by being a fixer first and a beater a distant second. The surveil-on-entry is a small smoothing effect, filling the graveyard by one and letting you dump a dead draw, the kind of low-cost card selection that reads as filler until you notice how many graveyard payoffs it feeds. The once-per-turn restriction on the mana ability is what keeps it grounded: you get one color-fix and one repaint per turn, not a repeatable rainbow rock. What you are left with is a modest defensive body that quietly does two jobs at once, fixing mana and shading itself into whatever the board demands, without ever pretending to be a threat.

Foraging Wickermaw (ecl)
ECL · #256common
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) 1 generic mana: Add one mana of any color. This creature becomes that color until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
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