Skyshroud Poacher

The Rebel subtype arrived as a self-referential search chain: each Rebel carried an activated ability that tutored up another Rebel of higher cost, with Ramosian Sergeant at the bottom of the curve and Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero assembling the rest. This is the one card that points that mechanic sideways. Instead of fetching Rebels, the Poacher hunts Elf permanents, turning a Rebel body into a green creature tutor that fixes mana, builds a board, and threatens to assemble whatever Elf-shaped engine the deck wants. The cost structure is what keeps it from running away with a game: each activation taps the body and demands three mana on top, so the Poacher converts surplus mana into permanents at a rate of one per turn rather than emptying a library in a single window. That repeatability is the whole pitch. A one-shot Elf tutor would be a footnote; an untapping engine that drops a fresh Elf permanent every turn becomes a value spine that grinds out attrition games and, with the right toolbox, finds combo pieces or silver-bullet utility creatures on demand. The 2/2 frame is incidental, a fragile shell around a recurring tutor. What makes the design durable is the seam it sits on: a card built to advance one tribe that quietly became one of the better ways to play another.