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Seedguide Ash

Creature — Treefolk Druid4 generic manaGreen mana

The death trigger is the whole engine here: a 4/4 body for five mana is unremarkable on its own, but a creature that fetches up to three Forest cards onto the battlefield tapped when it dies turns every act of trading it away into a ramp spell. Removal and combat both convert into mana. Block with it, chump with it, sacrifice it, let it eat a burn spell: every outcome an opponent would normally celebrate instead leaves you three lands ahead, with the only friction being that those lands arrive tapped and so do nothing the turn they appear. That tap clause is the price, keeping the card a delayed payoff rather than a way to flash three lands into an immediate explosive turn. The other quiet detail is the breadth of "Forest cards": the trigger reads land type, not basic, so it pulls dual lands, shock lands, and triomes with the Forest subtype just as happily as a snow-covered basic, which lets a fixing-hungry deck dig for the colors it actually wants while still calling the effect ramp. Among green creatures whose deaths fix and accelerate, this one sits at the durable end: a four-power blocker that demands an answer, then thanks you for the answer with a small forest. The body invites the trade; the trade is the payoff.

Seedguide Ash (lrw)
LRW · #235uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $2.84
Foil: $13.99
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to three Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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