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Silverback Shaman

Creature — Ape Shaman3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The green answer to a green problem: the color that struggles most to draw cards, attached to a body the color loves to trade in combat. Green's card-advantage tools have always leaned on creatures dying or attacking rather than clean instant-speed draw, and this design leans all the way in. The rate is deliberately unspectacular for a 5/4, because the second line does the pricing: a trampler that refunds a card whenever it hits the graveyard cannot be answered cheaply. Trade it in combat and you draw; kill it with a removal spell and you draw; chump-block a bigger threat and you draw. The only clean answers are exile or bounce, and the death trigger turns every conventional removal spell into a two-for-one that favors its controller. It never runs away with a game the way a card-advantage engine can, but it also never leaves you empty-handed, which is exactly the reassurance green midrange has historically wanted from its top end. The trample matters here too, since it means the 5/4 keeps pressing damage through blockers rather than sitting back, so the death-draw is a bonus on a card already doing offensive work rather than a consolation for a do-nothing body.

Silverback Shaman (m20)
M20 · #195common
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample When this creature dies, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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