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Formidable Speaker

Creature — Elf Druid2 generic manaGreen mana

Two jobs stapled to one Elf Druid body, and the pairing is smarter than either half looks alone. The first is a Fauna Shaman-style transaction that fires the moment it lands: discard a card from hand, tutor exactly the creature the board needs into your grip. The second is the untap ability, which reads like a mana-dork variant until you notice it reaches another target permanent, not itself. That widens it from a fixer into an engine piece: untap a blocker to attack and hold the ground, reset a permanent with a valuable tap ability, or feed a chain of activations that want to fire more than once a turn. The 2/4 frame is the connective tissue: durable enough to survive combat and stick around as a repeatable untap outlet, unlike the fragile one-toughness druids that usually carry effects like this. What the design is really doing is folding a one-shot tutor and a permanent-flexing untap engine into a single three-drop, and letting the toughness pay for both. The discard is the honest cost on the front half: no card to pitch means no search, so the ability rewards a hand with excess it would rather convert than hold. It is built for decks that treat their permanents as machinery to be run repeatedly, and that ask a body to keep working long after its enter trigger has resolved.

Formidable Speaker (ecl)
ECL · #176rare
Pricing
Normal: $7.87
Foil: $9.99
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may discard a card. If you do, search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. 1 generic mana, Tap: Untap another target permanent.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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