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Lotuslight Dancers

Creature — Zombie Bard2 generic manaBlack manaGreen manaBlue mana

Self-mill has always run into a color problem: a graveyard payoff wants specific cards in the yard, but generic mill dumps whatever the top of the library happens to be. This answers that by making the fill deterministic across three colors at once, tutoring a black card, a green card, and a blue card straight into the graveyard rather than the hand. The trade is total: you never draw these cards, you pay for them with the search, and because the graveyard is a public zone and the color-specific fetch has to reveal what it finds, your opponent sees exactly which three pieces you buried. That constraint is what points the design at reanimation and graveyard-recursion shells specifically, where a card in the yard is precisely where you want it and the guaranteed color spread assembles a package rather than a random pile. The 3/6 body with lifelink is doing real work too: it wants to survive the turn it lands, block through the midgame, and let the graveyard engine come online behind it while the life gain buys time. A five-mana Sultai creature that hunts down three targets and files them in the graveyard is a narrow ask, but a precise one, built for a deck that already knows the three cards it needs there and just wants a reliable way to put them all in the same place on the same turn.

Lotuslight Dancers (tdm)
TDM · #363rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.32
Foil: $0.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

Lifelink When this creature enters, search your library for a black card, a green card, and a blue card. Put those cards into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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