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Roil Cartographer

Creature — Merfolk Rogue1 generic manaBlue mana

A 1/3 that plays defense while it prints a resource blue was never supposed to touch. Energy started life as a red-green currency for aggression and ramp, but here it becomes the fuel for a draw-three: land drops bank counters underneath a body durable enough to survive the early turns, and six of those counters convert into fresh cards at the cost of tapping down. That six-energy price is the throttle. Landfall yields roughly one counter per turn on a fair curve, so the payoff lands on a timeline the opponent can see coming and race. It wants the same infrastructure a landfall deck already assembles (fetches, extra land drops, anything that splits a single turn into multiple triggers) and turns that infrastructure into a refill button rather than a tempo swing. The tap requirement colors when the engine spends its resources: because a creature can be declared as a blocker and only afterward tapped to pay a cost during the declare-blockers step, it can eat an attacker and still cash in for cards in the same combat, and it untaps on your next turn to block again. The interesting part is not the rate on any single activation but the way it welds two resource systems that normally live in separate colors: lands feed energy, energy feeds cards, and the whole loop runs on triggers you were generating anyway.

Roil Cartographer (mh3)
MH3 · #67uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you get Energy (an energy counter). Tap, Pay six Energy: Draw three cards.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
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