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Quintorius, Field Historian

Legendary Creature — Elephant Cleric3 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

Graveyard synergy usually lives in black and green, where the yard is a resource to be milled, reanimated, and drained. This turns the axis sideways: the payoff is not putting cards into the graveyard but pulling them out, and it rewards frequency of departures over volume. Every exile, flashback, escape, or shuffle-your-graveyard-into-your-library effect becomes a token trigger, and because the ability counts the event ("one or more cards leave") rather than each card, a single sweeping graveyard-hate spell or mass recursion spits out one Spirit, not a swarm; the reward is engineering many small departures rather than one large one. The 3/2 it makes is aggressively sized for a value engine, and the anthem folds those tokens plus any other Spirits into a growing board. Notice what the +1/+0 does to the design: this is not just a graveyard payoff but a Spirit lord that manufactures its own tribe, so the recursion trigger and the anthem reinforce each other with no outside support required. What this resolves is how to make graveyard interaction proactive and creature-based in a color pair that historically had no reason to care what sat in the bin. Red and white are the aggression and go-wide colors; handing them a graveyard engine that produces bodies rather than card advantage is the reframe that makes the whole thing coherent.

Quintorius, Field Historian (stx)
STX · #220uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

Spirits you control get +1/+0. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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