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Return of the Mole Man

Enchantment1 generic manaGreen mana

Green landfall decks already want to churn out extra land drops for their own sake, which is what makes this a nearly-free bolt-on: each land that resolves offers to mill two, so the graveyard fills as a byproduct of doing what the deck was going to do anyway. The payoff reads that graveyard's permanent count directly, converting the pile into a wide swarm of Moloid tokens. What ties the halves together is that the milling is not waste; every permanent card sent from library to bin is a downpayment on the sacrifice ability's X. The Moloids then extend the loop, milling on attack, so a board that survives keeps topping off a graveyard other green payoffs can feed on even after the enchantment is gone. The sorcery-speed restriction on that ability answers an obvious timing question: you cannot flash out a token army in response to a board wipe or at an opponent's end step, which stops a two-mana enchantment that snowballs unattended from also functioning as an instant-speed reset. And because the landfall mill is a "may," deck-out is optional; once the library thins, you decline the trigger and cash in the pile you have already assembled. The floor is a slow accumulation of fodder, but the ceiling is a board built entirely from cards you were never going to cast.

Return of the Mole Man (msc)
MSC · #729mythic
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Normal: $10.14
Foil: $12.03
Oracle Text

Rules text

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may mill two cards. 5 generic manaGreen mana, Sacrifice this enchantment: Create X 1/1 green Minion creature tokens named Moloid, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard. The tokens have "Whenever this token attacks, you may mill a card." Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
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PreDH
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Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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