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Llanowar Empath

Creature — Elf Shaman3 generic manaGreen mana

The smoothing function for a card-draw engine, doing two jobs that usually live on separate cards. Scry 2 fixes your next two draws; the reveal-and-grab clause turns your library's top into a guaranteed creature when it cooperates. The sequencing is the design payoff: you scry first, so you can stack a creature onto the top before the reveal resolves, converting the scry into a deliberate tutor rather than a coin flip. That interaction rewards knowing your own deck's draw order, and it lifts this above the flat dig of an Elvish Visionary or the bottom-of-the-curve Wood Elves: green has a long line of creatures that find more creatures, and this one adds selection on top of the find. A 2/2 here is deliberately modest, priced so an engine creature does not also become a beater; the entry trigger is the whole reason for the slot. The catch sits in that reveal clause, which only hands you a creature: whiff on a noncreature card after the scry and you have spent four mana on two cards' worth of bottom-of-library smoothing and a small Elf with a spent ability. Build a creature-dense list and the whiff rate falls toward nothing, which is precisely the deck this was made for.

Llanowar Empath (ori)
ORI · #185common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, scry 2, then reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

3 sets
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