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Scout for Survivors

Sorcery2 generic manaWhite mana

White reanimation has always been priced by the value it returns, and this one budgets three ways at once: three separate slots, capped at a shared mana-value ceiling of three, each body arriving upgraded rather than fragile. That triple-return-with-a-bonus structure is where the design tension sits. The mana-value cap does the balancing work here: it forbids the fatty-reanimation this color could never do anyway and instead points the card squarely at the graveyard's cheap sediment. Mana dorks, one-drop hatebears, sacrifice fodder, a two-drop with an enters trigger you want to fire twice. The +1/+1 counter is not incidental; on creatures this small it is the difference between rebuilding a board and rebuilding a board that can actually block or trade. Sorcery speed keeps it honest, so this is a rebuild step, not an instant-speed ambush after a board wipe resolves on your opponent's turn. It rewards a graveyard stocked wide rather than tall, the kind a go-wide white deck fills naturally: many small bodies, none of them individually worth a dedicated reanimation spell, all of them worth something in aggregate. It is mass recursion built for the swarm rather than the singleton, which is a lane white has occupied through cards that return small creatures en masse, extended here with a stat bump that turns a recovery into a rebuild.

Scout for Survivors (eoe)
EOE · #33uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return up to three target creature cards with total mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter on each of them.
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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