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Gather the Pack

Sorcery1 generic manaGreen mana

Digging five deep for a body is a clean green selection effect, but the deeper design idea is what the card asks you to spend on the way there. The floor mills four cards to find one creature, a real cost that curdles into a virtue: graveyard-matters strategies want those cards down there, so the reveal is loading a yard while it fills a hand. Spell mastery is the lever. Reach two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in the bin and the same dig hauls back a second creature, which turns a card-neutral selection spell into raw card advantage for any deck already running a light spell suite. That conditional is the whole tension: the basic mode is a slightly lossy tutor throwing away four cards, and the upside is a spell that draws into two threats while feeding whatever wants to eat the graveyard. The build-around question is unusual for the color, which rarely gets to count its instants and sorceries; here the reward for diversifying a spell base cashes out squarely in green's wheelhouse of finding creatures. It wants a graveyard engine on the back end and a critical mass of cheap spells on the front, sitting at the intersection of two archetypes that do not always share a deck.

Gather the Pack (pio)
PIO · #379uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil: $0.63
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, put up to two creature cards from among the revealed cards into your hand instead of one.
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

Other printings

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