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Greenseeker

Creature — Elf SpellshaperGreen mana

Take Lay of the Land, attach it to a body, and let it fire once a turn for the price of a card from hand: that is the engine here. The Spellshaper template took a known instant or sorcery and turned it into a repeatable creature ability paid for out of hand, and the effect this one shapes is plain green basic-fetching. The trade is where it gets interesting. Spend a green mana and pitch a card, and you convert that card into exactly the basic you need in hand, so the engine runs only while you have fuel to feed it (and summoning sickness keeps it idle on the turn it arrives). Think of it less as ramp than as a smoothing tool: a way to flush dead cards from a flooded or screwed grip and replace them with the land that fixes the draw, thinning basics from the library as you go. The discard cost works for you on the back end too, since the pitched card lands in the graveyard, feeding strategies that want a stocked bin (reanimation, threshold, delve) while you fix your draws. As a one-drop it sits at the cheapest rung of a green curve, but its value compounds across turns rather than arriving in a burst, so the decks that wanted it were the patient ones: grindy lists with cards to spare and a reason to keep the yard full.

Greenseeker (tsr)
TSR · #207common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Green mana, Tap, Discard a card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

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