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Gilt-Leaf Archdruid

Creature — Elf Druid3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Two abilities live on this body, and they feed the same engine. The draw trigger is the honest one: build a deck flooded with Druids and every one you cast refills your hand, a Glimpse-style chain that turns tribal critical mass into a card-advantage engine. It rewards exactly the deck that wants this creature anyway. The second ability is the fantasy nobody balances around: tap seven untapped Druids and steal every land an opponent controls. That is not a removal spell or a tempo swing; it is a resource lockout dressed as an activated ability, and the gating cost is doing all the heavy lifting. Reaching seven untapped Druids on the same turn is the whole project. The Archdruid itself counts as one of the seven (it is a Druid, and the ability never restricts itself to other Druids), but tapping it costs you nothing the rest of the turn since its own value comes from casting Druid spells rather than attacking or tapping for mana. The payoff is so lopsided that the design treats getting there as the win condition, with the land theft a formality. What makes it singular among Elf and Druid lords is that it does not pump or fix or ramp in the conventional sense. It converts a wide board into two separate jackpots, one incremental and one catastrophic, with the first engine directly feeding the second.

Gilt-Leaf Archdruid (mor)
MOR · #124rare
Pricing
Normal: $10.65
Foil: $58.87
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a Druid spell, you may draw a card. Tap seven untapped Druids you control: Gain control of all lands target player controls.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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