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Sylvan Ranger

Creature — Elf Scout Ranger1 generic manaGreen mana

Green's "creature that smooths your draws" common has worn many faces, and this is the version that splits its payload deliberately: the basic land goes to your hand, not onto the battlefield. That single routing choice is what separates the design from a fetch-on-a-stick like Wood Elves or Civic Wayfinder, which drop the land into play and ramp you forward a turn. Here you get no immediate untapped mana, just a deferred land drop and a guaranteed color of your choosing, bundled onto a 1/1 body that asks for nothing in return. The trigger is the whole reason the card exists, and its modesty is what makes it dangerous in the long run: a creature that tutors a basic and demands no setup becomes an engine the moment you can flicker, bounce, or recur it, turning a one-time smoothing effect into a repeatable fixing-and-card-advantage loop. Left alone, the body is fodder you sacrifice, chump, or blink away without regret, which is the point. The Elf and Scout tags are quiet bonuses for whatever tribal hooks care about them. This is the kind of unglamorous fixing that has held two- and three-color decks together for a long stretch of the game's history: never the reason you win, always part of why the deck functions at all.

Sylvan Ranger (c14)
C14 · #216common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

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