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Kagha, Shadow Archdruid

Legendary Creature — Elf Druid2 generic manaBlack manaGreen mana

Self-mill is usually a means to an end: fuel a graveyard payoff, dig toward a reanimation target, feed a delve count. This design collapses means and end into one permanent by tying a recursion clause to whatever hit your graveyard from your library this turn. The attack trigger drops two cards, and the second ability lets you replay a land or cast a permanent spell from that fresh material, once per turn. But the clause is not fenced to the attack: any mill you run this turn from other sources widens the pool you can spend, so the more your deck flips face-up before your main phase, the fatter the second hand you get to cash in. The mill stops being pure attrition and becomes a delayed draw step routed through the graveyard. The deathtouch-on-attack rider is what keeps a 1/4 relevant as a repeated aggressor: a small deathtouch body trades up and pries open blockers, which is exactly what a creature whose whole job is to keep swinging and refilling needs. Sequencing carries weight too, because the recursion only touches cards milled this turn: you attack (and pile on any other self-mill) before committing the rest of your mana, so you know what the yard offers before you spend it. A value engine built on the premise that your own library, turned over two cards at a time, was already a resource worth reaching for.

Kagha, Shadow Archdruid (clb)
CLB · #279uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $1.22
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever Kagha attacks, it gains deathtouch until end of turn. Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) Once during each of your turns, you may play a land or cast a permanent spell from among cards in your graveyard that were put there from your library this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
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