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Steward of the Harvest

Creature — Human Druid3 generic manaGreen mana

Land-based activated abilities are the workhorse abilities in the game, but they normally stay welded to their sources: only Gaea's Cradle taps for its own creature count, only a manland animates itself. This druid pries those abilities loose and grafts them onto your whole board. Exile up to three lands with activated abilities from your graveyard, and every creature you control inherits them, converting a stalled battlefield into a distributed engine. The mechanic leans on a subtle rule: the abilities are copied onto your creatures, not the lands themselves, so a single copy can make each creature a repeatable value source or, if you exile something that produces mana, a spread of mana dorks. The constraint sits in the supply line. This only reaches into the graveyard, and only for land cards, so a deck has to have already sacrificed, cycled, or milled its own utility lands to feed it, rather than one that merely plays them. The 3/3 body is beside the point; the payoff is entirely in what it grants, and the breadth is the draw. Any land ability ever printed becomes fair game, and the ones capable of the most degenerate loops (creature-lands, sacrifice-for-value lands, mana engines) are precisely the ones worth burying on purpose. It is a green graveyard payoff that treats spent lands as fuel rather than losses, then hands the whole team the keys.

Steward of the Harvest (tdc)
TDC · #88rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, exile up to three target land cards from your graveyard. Creatures you control have all activated abilities of all land cards exiled with this creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
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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