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Pillardrop Rescuer

Creature — Spirit Cleric4 generic manaWhite mana

A five-mana 2/2 flyer is a body nobody is casting for the stats, which tells you where the design's weight actually sits: the enters trigger buying back a small creature from the graveyard. The mana-value cap of three keeps the recursion aimed at the cheap, replaceable end of the curve, which is exactly where value engines live: a mana dork, a hatebear, a one-drop with an on-death or on-enter trigger. That ceiling is what prevents the card from becoming a soft Regrowth for your best late-game threat; you get back the piece you want to recast and recast again, not the bomb you lost. The design belongs to a long white tradition of stapling graveyard retrieval onto a modest flyer so the creature justifies itself twice: once when it blocks or chips, once when it refills your hand. Because the return fires only on entry rather than continuously, it wants a stream of cheap bodies moving through the yard to keep the loop fed, and it plays best as a bridge between the early game that filled that graveyard and a midgame that wants to keep looping it.

Pillardrop Rescuer (j22)
J22 · #226common
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Normal: $0.09
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.
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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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