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Sand Scout

Creature — Human Scout1 generic manaWhite mana

Two payoffs stitched onto one white two-drop, both keyed to lands rather than to combat. The enter trigger is a catch-up mechanism with a strict fuse: it fires only when an opponent is ahead on lands, and it fetches a Desert specifically, tutoring a subtheme most white decks never touch. Because the effect only exists when you are actually behind, it never functions as free ramp; the deficit is a precondition, not a bonus. The second ability turns land death into board presence, minting a Sand Warrior token (in red, green, and white, which quietly signals where this creature is meant to live) whenever land cards hit your graveyard from anywhere. "From anywhere" is doing more than it looks: fetchlands cracking, sacrifice effects, self-mill, and discard all feed it, not just lands dying on the battlefield. The once-per-turn clamp caps the output at a single token, favoring a steady drip over one explosive turn. What makes it cohere is that both halves care about the same resource from opposite directions: one exploits an opponent's land advantage, the other converts your own lands' passage to the graveyard into bodies. It is a support piece for a Desert-and-lands strategy that wants a white creature doing quiet accounting work, not a headliner, and the design reads as an invitation to build around a land-attrition engine rather than a standalone threat.

Sand Scout (otc)
OTC · #47rare
Pricing
Normal: $5.43
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a Desert card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, create a 1/1 red, green, and white Sand Warrior creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
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
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