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Overgrown Pest

Creature — Pest2 generic manaGreen mana

The interesting wrinkle here is what the card selection actually filters for. A 2/2 for three that digs five deep is nothing on rate; green has been printing that body since the beginning. What separates this one is the specific class of card it can pull: lands, yes, which makes it fixing dressed as a body, but also any double-faced card, which is a much stranger and more valuable net. Modal double-faced cards blur the line between spell and land, so an effect that "may reveal a land or double-faced card" is quietly reaching for the most flexible cards in a given pool: the ones that can be either. That doubling of eligible targets is the design idea. A creature that only found basics would durdle; a creature that finds a land when you need mana and a spell-side-of-a-double-faced-card when you need action turns the enters-the-battlefield trigger from mana insurance into genuine card selection. The random-bottom clause is what stops it short of a repeatable tutor: you see five, you take one, and the other four scatter, so its value tracks how much of your deck this can actually grab rather than how deep a toolbox you comb through. It is a smoothing engine that got a lot more interesting the moment double-faced cards became a permanent fixture rather than a set-specific gimmick.

Overgrown Pest (mom)
MOM · #197common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a land or double-faced card from among them and put that card into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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