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Oread of Mountain's Blaze

Enchantment Creature — Nymph1 generic manaRed mana

A 1/3 body pays for something red rarely gets to keep on a permanent: repeatable card selection that survives the turn it arrives. The toughness is the point of entry, letting it hold a ground stall while the activated ability does its slow work. That ability is rummaging, the older and less forgiving cousin of true card advantage: you discard first and then draw, so it filters a card rather than nets one. Because the discard is a cost, the whole thing only functions while you still have something to pitch: it smooths a full hand, it does not rebuild an empty one. The steep three-mana price makes each activation deliberate rather than an engine you spin freely, though nothing about the ability taps the creature, so a hand full of dead lands can be churned several times in a single turn if the mana is there. The enchantment-creature type line quietly earns its keep too, feeding graveyard fillers and enchantment-count payoffs while the body shrugs off a point of damage. The appeal was never the rate. It is a value outlet for grindy decks that want to trade excess lands and situational cards for live draws and graveyard fuel, converting surplus into relevance one activation at a time.

Oread of Mountain's Blaze (thb)
THB · #146common
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

2 generic manaRed mana, Discard a card: Draw a card.
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
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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