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Molt Tender

Creature — Insect DruidGreen mana

Two tap abilities on the same 1/1 body, both drawing from the graveyard but pulling in opposite directions: one feeds it, one burns it. Tap to self-mill and you are quietly stocking the yard on turns with nothing better to spend the activation on; tap and exile a card from that yard and you get one mana of any color. The mill builds the fuel, the fixing consumes it, and because both run off the same tap you never do both in a turn without an untapper. The any-color clause is the part that pays for the slot: most one-mana green producers are locked to green or a single color, while here the color is arbitrary, paid for by a resource the creature manufactures for itself. That makes the graveyard a working stockpile rather than a hoard, something spent down as you use it. The obvious homes are shells that want incidental self-mill and flexible mana from the same card without dedicating a slot to a one-note fixer: reanimator toolboxes, delirium and graveyard-count payoffs, greedy multicolor piles happy to trade a card off the top for a splash color. A quiet piece of dual-purpose design where the two halves are not really separate abilities at all, but the two ends of a single loop.

Molt Tender (dft)
DFT · #171uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.35
Foil: $0.34
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) Tap, Exile a card from your graveyard: Add one mana of any color.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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