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Scrounge for Eternity

Sorcery2 generic manaBlack mana

Reanimation with a tax attached, and the tax is the interesting part. Most graveyard-to-battlefield sorceries in this color ask you to pay in life, cards, or a mana-value ceiling; this one demands a body or an artifact off the top as an additional cost, folding the reanimation spell into the aristocrats loop it usually feeds. You sacrifice something you were going to sacrifice anyway (a token, a spent creature, a used-up artifact) and get back a five-drop-or-less threat, so the card converts fodder directly into a payoff rather than just enabling a later one. The Lander token that follows is the quiet ballast: it turns a spell that would otherwise set your board back a permanent into one that nets you a permanent and a land in the bank, smoothing the tempo cost of the sacrifice. That five-mana-value cap keeps it from reaching the format-warping fatties reanimation strategies chase; it is built for the middle of the curve, where the creatures pay their own way rather than needing a discount to be worth cheating in. What makes the design cohere is that the sacrifice requirement and the reanimation target want the same graveyard: you are recurring value you already spent, and the Lander backfills the mana you sank into casting it. It is a sorcery-speed engine piece for a deck that treats its own creatures and artifacts as raw material, not a haymaker.

Scrounge for Eternity (eoe)
EOE · #114uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Return target creature or Spacecraft card with mana value 5 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then create a Lander token. (It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.")
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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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