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Skyshroud Lookout

Creature — Elf Archer1 generic manaGreen mana

Seek is a tutor stripped of its most abusable properties: it drops a matching card from your library straight into hand with no browse, no shuffle, and no way to hand-pick, so there is no library search for a combo engine to loop and no digging for exactly the piece you need. What arrives is a random Elf, whatever remains among the tribe in your deck. That randomness is the price the design pays for the rate. A two-mana body that reliably drew a fresh piece of tribal fuel would be too clean if it let you choose the target; leaving it to chance keeps the effect from hardening into a consistency engine while still guaranteeing card advantage the moment it lands. For an aggressive Elf shell that guarantee is the whole point: it never whiffs so long as one Elf is left in the library, and every hit is another piece of tribal fuel. Reach is quiet insurance, letting a small archer wall off or trade with the fliers it matches on toughness. Within the Elf lineage it belongs to the branch that manufactures raw card count rather than mana, closer in spirit to a self-replacing threat than to the mana dorks that anchor the tribe: bodies begetting bodies, asking nothing of the deck but more Elves to find.

Skyshroud Lookout (j21)
J21 · #30uncommon
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach When this creature enters, seek an Elf card.
Legalities

Format Status

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