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Sandman, Shifting Scoundrel

Legendary Creature — Sand Elemental Villain1 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The self-scaling green beater is old ground: Multani's landfall clock, any number of *-power bodies that grow with the board. What separates this one is where it reads its size. Its stats do not float on transient triggers or a snapshot of the battlefield; they count your lands, and the graveyard ability quietly makes that count refillable. Pay 3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana and it climbs back from the yard alongside a land you had lost, its size set by whatever land count you can muster. That reanimation clause does double work: it is a recursion engine for the creature and a way to reclaim a fetched, sacrificed, or otherwise buried land in the same activation, tapped but real. The evasion is scaled to the ground stalls a lands-matter deck tends to fall into: it can't be blocked by anything with power 2 or less, so the mana dorks and small tokens that clog a green board can't chump it, no matter how large it has grown. It is a threat that gets harder to answer the longer the game runs, and unlike most graveyard-recursive creatures it leaves no exile clause or permanent penalty; the only cost is the flat activation and the tapped land it drags along each time. A midrange piece that turns the land drop you wanted to make anyway into the thing feeding its clock.

Sandman, Shifting Scoundrel (spm)
SPM · #266rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.44
Foil: $1.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

Sandman's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. Sandman can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. 3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana: Return this card and target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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