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Old Rutstein

Legendary Creature — Human Peasant1 generic manaBlack manaGreen mana

Mill has always been a resource you spend on your opponent, a clock that grinds their library toward zero. This design inverts the direction entirely: the milling points at your own deck, and every card that falls off the top becomes a token whose type is dictated by the card's type. Lands mint Treasure, creatures spawn Insects, everything else bleeds a Blood token. The result is a self-mill engine that never cares what it hits, because there is no whiff: the deck's composition is the only variable, and a builder who wants more ramp runs more lands, one who wants bodies runs more creatures, one who wants a discard-and-draw loop runs spells. The 1/4 body is the tell about its role; this is not a beater but a governor, a wall that sits behind a defensive line and manufactures a slow, diversified stream of value on each upkeep. What sharpens the design is that the mill also stocks a graveyard as a byproduct, so the same trigger that builds a board also fuels the recursion and reanimation strategies black-green has always leaned on. It asks a builder to treat their own library as a factory floor and tune the raw material accordingly.

Old Rutstein (dbl)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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