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Creature — Satyr Scout1 generic manaGreen mana

Land untappers have always been quiet ramp tools: tap the creature, untap a land, squeeze a second use out of your best mana source in the same turn. This one bolts a second job onto that chassis, and the second job is why it exists. Green has almost no way to touch battles directly; the color fights its way through defenders in combat rather than reaching over the top to move a defense counter. The second ability gives it a lever it otherwise lacks, letting you shore up a siege you are protecting or chip away at one an opponent holds. The sorcery-speed clamp on that ability is doing real work: shifting a defense counter at instant speed would turn every combat around a battle into a guessing game, so the clause pins it to your main phase, where it reads as a stated plan rather than an ambush. The untap ability carries no such restriction, which means the two halves of the card want opposite textures of turn: the land trick rewards holding up for a response, the battle lever wants to be sequenced deliberately. A 1/1 body is the counterweight on all of it. A creature that can both generate extra mana and manipulate the game's newest permanent type has to be trivial to kill, and this one is: any damage-based removal, most incidental pings, even a fight spell erase it before either tap matters.

Portent Tracker (mom)
MOM · #201common
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Untap target land. Tap: Choose target battle. If an opponent protects it, remove a defense counter from it. Otherwise, put a defense counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.
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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