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Smuggler's Surprise

InstantGreen mana

Three effects that green almost never gets to hold in one hand, stitched together by Spree so you can buy any combination at once for a floor of a single green mana plus one generic. One mode is card selection wearing self-mill's clothes, digging four deep and returning creatures and lands to hand. Another is a reanimator-style cheat, dropping up to two creatures from hand straight onto the battlefield without paying their costs. The third is a protection package sized precisely to the fatties the first two modes conjure, granting hexproof and indestructible to anything with power four or greater. Because you can stack them, one cast can dig, deploy a pair of threats, and wall them against a sweeper in a single motion, and all of it happens at instant speed. That timing is the interesting lever. Green ramp payoffs almost always resolve on your own turn, at sorcery speed, leaving the deployed board naked to the next Wrath of God. Here the whole sequence can fire on the opponent's turn or in direct response to removal, letting a green deck sidestep a board wipe by refusing to have its threats on the table when it lands, rather than grinding back afterward. The reward flows to hoarded mana rather than tidy per-turn increments: the payoff arrives on the turn you finally empty the tank and cash every additional cost at once.

Smuggler's Surprise (otj)
OTJ · #180rare
Pricing
Normal: $4.05
Foil: $4.51
Oracle Text

Rules text

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + 2 generic mana — Mill four cards. You may put up to two creature and/or land cards from among the milled cards into your hand. + 4 generic manaGreen mana — You may put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield. + 1 generic mana — Creatures you control with power 4 or greater gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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