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Soratami Mindsweeper

Creature — Moonfolk Wizard3 generic manaBlue mana

The cost structure is the tell: milling two cards is cheap on paper, but every activation asks you to bounce one of your own lands back to hand. That makes each use a real tempo hit rather than a free repeatable drain, and it ties the card to the Moonfolk's signature currency, where returning lands to hand is the price of every effect they offer. The 1/4 flyer is built to stall the ground and survive, which is exactly what a slow attrition plan wants: time. But the land-return clause works against that patience, since each pair of cards milled sets your own development back a turn. The result is a creature pulled between two clocks, the opponent's library shrinking while your own mana base keeps lifting itself out of play. Mill as a win condition has rarely been fast enough on its own; chaining it to a recurring land bounce makes the math harder still, since you are not just waiting on a slow clock but actively un-deploying to keep it ticking. That tension is the point. This reads less as a finisher and more as an expression of a clan whose whole identity is paying for power by picking its own lands back up.

Soratami Mindsweeper (psal)
PSAL · #H28uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
Foil: $1.89
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying 2 generic mana, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target player mills two cards.
Legalities

Format Status

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