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Path to the Festival

Sorcery2 generic manaGreen mana

Ramp with a scry rider that only pays out once your manabase is already greedy enough to earn it. The base line is the familiar green tempo trade: you find a basic and put it into play, but it arrives tapped, so the acceleration is deferred a turn rather than immediate. The single conditional clause turns a plain ramp spell into something sharper: the scry fires only when you already control three or more basic land types, a threshold that quietly taxes the card toward three-plus-color builds. That is not incidental. A single fetched basic can flip a two-type board over the line and convert ramp into ramp-plus-smoothing, while boards short of three basic land types get the acceleration and none of the payoff. The flashback tail is what earns the slot over cheaper alternatives: a raw two-mana ramp spell sits dead in hand by the midgame, but this one can be recast from the graveyard for a second land at a point when fixing still matters. The trade for all of it is a body-less sorcery that exerts no board presence at all; every mana it spends buys future mana and future card selection, never immediate pressure. It rewards the greedy manabase precisely, and only, once you have committed to the greed.

Path to the Festival (mid)
MID · #191common
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if there are three or more basic land types among lands you control, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Flashback 4 generic manaGreen mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
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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