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Silverglade Elemental

Creature — Elemental4 generic manaGreen mana

The fetch is the design, not the body: a 4/4 attached to a tutor that puts a Forest onto the battlefield untapped, bundling board presence and a permanent mana advantage into a single card. This is ramp reframed as a creature spell. Most green acceleration of this vintage lived on dedicated spells like Rampant Growth or on artifacts, leaving the body and the land competing for separate slots; here they arrive stapled together, and what comes in is a lasting, untapped land rather than a one-shot boost that evaporates by end of turn. The wording carries the quiet upside: it searches for a Forest card, not a basic Forest, so anything bearing the Forest subtype is a legal target. In a multicolor green deck that opens the search to typed dual lands, turning the trigger into untapped fixing rather than a flat ramp effect. The toughness is doing work too: a 4/4 holds the ground or trades up while the extra land matters, which is more than a fragile mana dork can claim. It is a workmanlike answer to an old green question (how to advance the board and the manabase at once without overpaying for either) from the era when designers were still learning to fold ramp into bodies rather than keep the two on separate cards.

Silverglade Elemental (mmq)
MMQ · #269common
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $3.06
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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