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Priest of the Wakening Sun

Creature — Human ClericWhite mana

A one-drop tutor wrapped around a Dinosaur payoff, and the activation cost is where the design earns its keep. The reveal-for-life trigger is the throwaway: it asks only that you already have a Dinosaur in hand and hands back two life for showing it. The real text is the sacrifice ability, which fetches any Dinosaur from your library straight to hand for five mana, body included. That price is deliberately steep for a fetch effect: paying it usually means a midgame where you have the mana floating and a missing finisher, not a turn-one play. The card's whole reason for existing is to smooth a tribe that leans on expensive haymakers. Dinosaur decks risk flooding on lands and drawing the wrong fatty, so a cheap creature that finds the exact threat you want, then trades its own body to do it, is consistency insurance for an archetype that needs the help. The 1/1 frame matters too: it deploys early as a chump or a sacrifice-fodder Cleric while it waits, then converts into card selection once the engine spins up. As a piece of tribal scaffolding it does the quiet work, smoothing draws rather than swinging games, which is exactly the job a one-mana enabler in a big-creature deck is built to do.

Priest of the Wakening Sun (pxln)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand. If you do, you gain 2 life. 3 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a Dinosaur card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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