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Rumor Gatherer

Creature — Elf Wizard1 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

Alliance pays you for a board that keeps developing, and this Elf Wizard converts that pace into an escalating card-advantage engine. Because the ability keys off any other creature entering rather than being cast, tokens, blinks, and reanimation all feed it equally. What sharpens the design is the two-tier clause: the first creature of the turn buys a scry, but a second entry the same turn upgrades that trigger into a full card draw. That structure quietly rewrites how you sequence a turn. It stops rewarding you for emptying your hand across several turns and starts rewarding you for staging two entries into one, whether through a token-doubler, a mass-token spell, or simply holding a second creature back until the first has resolved. The scry-then-draw split is a deliberate governor on the payoff: one creature per turn only smooths your draws, and unlocking the actual card requires real board commitment inside a single turn. At 2/1, the frame is intentionally fragile, an engine built to hide behind other creatures rather than trade in combat, and it asks to be protected the way any repeatable draw source does. The knob it turns is unusual among go-wide payoffs: not the raw count of creatures across a game, but their density within a single turn, which makes it reward tempo and clustering in a way most incremental-value creatures never do.

Rumor Gatherer (plst)
PLST · #SNC-29uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, draw a card instead.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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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