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Lammastide Weave

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

A guessing game wearing the clothes of a cantrip. The naming clause asks you to predict the top card of a library you cannot see, and the reward (life equal to whatever you correctly called) is so conditional that it functions less as a payoff and more as an occasional bonus. The card never strands you when the guess misses, because the final clause is unconditional: you replace it regardless. That replacement is what makes the design hold together. The mill-one-and-draw-one skeleton is cheap card filtering on its own; the name-call rides on top as upside that costs nothing extra to attempt. The most reliable way to hit the guess is to mill yourself, where you can stack a known card or simply name something you already saw, but the target clause lets it point anywhere, so it doubles as a single-card peek at an opponent's deck with a draw attached. As an instant, it slots into a counterspell-holding posture without spending your turn, and the life gain, when it lands on something expensive, can be a meaningful swing rather than a rounding error. Built for green decks that wanted graveyard fuel without surrendering tempo, it represents a recurring green design problem: how to attach self-mill to a card that still does something useful when the milled card turns out to be irrelevant.

Lammastide Weave (lrw)
LRW · #226uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose a card name, then target player mills a card. If a card with the chosen name was milled this way, you gain life equal to its mana value. Draw a card.
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
Legal
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