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Radiant Scrollwielder

Creature — Dwarf Cleric2 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

Two engines share one 2/4 body, and each answers a different problem that has dogged Boros spellslinger decks. The lifelink clause gives a color pair not built for lifegain a way to stabilize while it burns: any Lightning Bolt, any damage-based sweeper, any spell that actually deals damage now feeds your life total on resolution. That alone would be a serviceable role-player. The upkeep trigger is the ambition. It selects a random instant or sorcery from among your dead spells and offers it back for one turn, with the crucial rider that anything recast this way gets exiled rather than returned: the yard is a one-way resource, not a loop. And the randomness is the price of the engine, the reason it refuses to let you choose. You cannot mill your best spell and reliably pull it back; you seed the graveyard broadly and take what the trigger hands you. The result is a recurring, uncontrolled advantage rather than a tutor, which pushes deckbuilding toward volume (lots of cheap, individually acceptable spells) over a few bombs you would want on demand. Red and white have long lacked recursion that fits their identity; this reads as a rebuy engine granted to the pair without the reliability that black and blue take for granted. The 2/4 frame is the tell: durable enough to survive a turn cycle, small enough that the value, not the beatdown, is the point.

Radiant Scrollwielder (pstx)
PSTX · #221srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink. At the beginning of your upkeep, exile an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
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
N/A
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