Lead the Stampede

Card advantage in green has always come with a tax: you pay in mana, in tempo, or in the cards you fail to draw. This sorcery resolves that tension by charging the deckbuilding cost up front rather than the play cost on the spot. The variance lives entirely in your list: load it with bodies and the dig reliably refills a hand, but every land and noncreature spell you run is a card this can clip off and bury on the bottom. That constraint is what keeps the rate honest. A creature-dense aggressive shell turns this into something close to a true two-and-a-half-card draw for three mana, while a deck running a normal mix of spells gets a softer, less consistent return. Compared to flat green cantrips of its era, the design refuses to draw you whatever sits on top; it filters specifically toward the board, rewarding the kind of deck that wants to keep deploying threats and never wants to flood. The look-at-five window also caps the ceiling: you cannot dig deeper for a single key card, only sweep the creatures off a fixed slice. That self-limiting shape is why it found a home in the lowest-curve, most monolithic creature decks rather than anything that wanted flexibility. It is refueling tuned for a single archetype, and it does that one job cleanly.