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James, Wandering Dad // Follow Him

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist // Instant — Adventure2 generic manaBlue manaX generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The mana this taps for is deliberately hobbled: two colorless that can only pay for activated abilities, dead in your hand and useless against a spell. That restriction is the whole personality of the front face. A 2/4 body becomes a battery for whatever activation-hungry engine is already running, quietly doubling your output once the board is built around ability costs. The Adventure half, Follow Him, is where the flexibility lives: an instant that investigates X times, scaling the Clue count directly to how deep you go, then tucking the creature into exile to be cast later. The sequencing is the payoff. You can fire a burst of card advantage at instant speed on an opponent's end step, then land the mana-battery body a turn or two afterward, extracting two distinct pieces of value from one card at two different points in the game. It is a design meant for decks that spend their mana on activations rather than on the stack, and the Investigate payload gives it a floor even when the front half has no engine to feed. A patient card, structurally: neither half wants to be cast on curve, and both reward a board that has already taken shape.

James, Wandering Dad // Follow Him (pip)
PIP · #559rare
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Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless manaColorless mana. Spend this mana only to activate abilities. // Investigate X times. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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