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Rosheen Meanderer

Legendary Creature — Giant Shaman3 generic manaRed or Green mana

Most mana abilities produce mana that goes anywhere; this one produces mana that goes almost nowhere. Four colorless, all at once, restricted to costs that contain X generic mana: a sealed rail that funnels straight into Fireball, Comet Storm, Hydra Broodmaster, and the long line of X-spells that scale without ceiling. The restriction is the entire design. Mana that can only feed X generic mana cannot be hoarded into a fixed-cost counterspell or a flat removal answer, so the card buys a large, repeatable burst by tying it to one payoff structure. That structure is also the joke and the appeal: a Giant Shaman whose four colorless is functionally inert until you point her at something built to drink as much mana as you can pour into it, at which point she doubles or triples your X in a single turn. The body carries more than the ability suggests, too; a 4/4 for four is real enough to attack and block while you assemble the payoff, which keeps her from being a do-nothing rock with legs. She is a faucet rather than a ramp piece in the usual sense: not fixing, not generic acceleration, just a tap that only opens for the handful of spells written to make use of it. The design lives entirely on that single deckbuilding axis, and it is the bluntest version of the idea: enormous mana, useless everywhere except the exact place it was meant to go.

Rosheen Meanderer (plst)
PLST · #IMA-206uncommon
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Normal: $0.31
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless manaColorless manaColorless manaColorless mana. Spend this mana only on costs that contain X generic mana.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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