Ramosian Captain

The mid-tier rung in the Rebel tutoring engine, and the one that explains why the whole network plays the way it does. Ramosian Sergeant fetches the cheapest bodies; larger Rebels reach further up the curve; this sits in the middle, pulling any Rebel permanent with mana value 4 or less straight onto the battlefield. That tiered search is the design idea: each Rebel covers a slightly different band of the curve, so one activation sets up the next, and the player assembles a toolbox of hatebears, lords, and answers a single creature at a time without ever drawing a card. The five-mana, tap-down cost is steep on purpose. The engine is slow, telegraphed, and vulnerable to a single removal spell pointed at whichever Rebel is doing the fetching, which is exactly what kept the package fair: it converts excess mana into board presence over many turns instead of detonating in one. First strike on the 2/2 body is the consolation for a creature that would rather sit back and activate, letting it trade up in combat while it grinds. The Rebel network was an early experiment in a creature-based tutoring loop that put its finds directly onto the battlefield rather than into your hand or graveyard, and this is the link that lets the search ladder actually reach the cards worth fetching.