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Sylvok Explorer

Creature — Human Druid1 generic manaGreen mana

The rare mana dork whose mana production is dictated by the table rather than your list: what it produces is a mirror of your opponents' manabase, not your own. Against a mono-green deck it taps for green; the moment two opponents are running lands that together cover all five colors, it blooms into a genuine five-color rock, scaling directly with the diversity of the lands sitting across from you. That parasitic reading of an opponent's resources is the whole design. In a one-on-one game it functions as soft color-screw insurance, letting you cast off-color splashes you would otherwise have no business running, but only to the extent your opponent's lands happen to cover the gap; if their colors do not overlap with what you need, the body is just a 1/1 and a wasted tap. The lineage is the old "use what they have" school of green design, the same instinct behind effects that copy enemy lands or borrow their permanents, repackaged into a humble druid. It asks a question almost no other ramp creature does: not "what colors am I," but "what colors are they." That inversion is also its ceiling. A creature this reactive cannot be the spine of a manabase, because you cannot know at deckbuilding time what it will produce. It is a fixer that trusts the table to be greedy, and rewards you only when it is.

Sylvok Explorer (5dn)
5DN · #93common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.45
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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