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Rootweaver Druid

Creature — Elf Druid2 generic manaGreen mana

Political ramp is the design puzzle here, and this Elf tackles it by dressing a symmetrical group-hug offer up as your own fixing engine. When it enters, each opponent may dig for basics, but the split runs lopsided in your favor: one land per opponent arrives tapped under your control, the rest tapped under theirs. The whole thing has to stay palatable enough that the table actually says yes. Opponents get genuine ramp from the deal, which is the bait, and they can decline outright, which is the honest cost. If nobody bites, the ability whiffs and the 2/1 body has accomplished nothing. That opt-in structure changes what a Rampant Growth does: you are not spending green mana to grow your own manabase, you are spending a table negotiation, and the negotiation can fall through. It belongs to a small subgenre of ramp that runs on other players' cooperation rather than your own library, alongside effects that hand out lands to make a larger giveaway feel fair. The Druid's stats are incidental; the interesting axis is that it converts manabase development into a social transaction, where the best outcomes depend on convincing your opponents that helping themselves is worth quietly slipping you a basic land apiece.

Rootweaver Druid (cmr)
CMR · #684rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.85
Foil: $1.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, each opponent may search their library for up to three basic land cards. They each put one of those cards onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest onto the battlefield tapped under their control. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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