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Giant Ladybug

Creature — Insect2 generic manaGreen mana

A 4/1 with reach reads like a joke until you notice the whole body is a delivery vehicle for the smoothing. The green Insect that fixes its own draw is an old design shape: swing an aggressive body, then tuck a basic land onto your library's next slot so the following card is guaranteed to be land. The tension the design resolves is that this is neither ramp nor card advantage: you don't get the land into play, you get certainty about your next draw, at the cost of that draw being a land you already knew you'd hit. That makes the toughness of 1 the honest part of the bargain: four power for 2 generic manaGreen mana buys real early pressure, and a body this fragile is not one you were planning to lean on past the first swing anyway. Reach is the incidental sweetener that lets a ground-pounder trade up into fliers it has no business blocking. The distinction from a plain vanilla bear is that the entry trigger stacks its own future: cast one and you have effectively wired the next land into your upcoming draw, which matters most to a deck that wants exactly one more land and nothing else. It is a modest, self-contained engine wearing an aggressive stat line, and the two halves are more at odds than they first appear.

Giant Ladybug (j22)
J22 · #39common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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