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Mulch

Sorcery1 generic manaGreen mana

Two engines stapled together at cross purposes, and they actively work against each other. As a land-finder it is feast-or-famine: a reveal heavy on lands hands you several cards at once, a genuine spike of card advantage, while a land-light reveal leaves you with one or zero in hand and three or four spells dumped into the yard. The land-to-hand clause smooths your draws when the reveal cooperates and does nothing when it does not, so as a pure consistency spell it is unreliable by construction. As a graveyard-stocker it is the opposite: anything that is not a land goes straight to the bin, and that half of the card is the one that aged into relevance. Green graveyard strategies that want creatures, instants, and sorceries in the yard to feed reanimation, threshold, delve, or recursion get exactly that, with the land-to-hand clause functioning less as a benefit and more as a built-in throttle on how much you can dump per cast. The same clause that makes the lands stick is the one that caps your fill rate, so you cannot tune the card toward either job without the other half clawing back value. Most later self-mill is cleaner and more controllable, but this was an early attempt to let green convert raw library depth into two distinct resources at once, and the friction between those uses reads as the design's intent rather than its flaw.

Mulch (c15)
C15 · #191common
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Normal: $0.17
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

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