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Three Visits

Sorcery1 generic manaGreen mana

Function for function, this is Nature's Lore wearing a different name, and the clause that matters is identical: it puts a Forest card onto the battlefield untapped, which is the line separating this micro-family from Rampant Growth and the tapped-land ramp before it. The untapped entry refunds half the casting cost the same turn it resolves, so the land is ready to tap for green immediately rather than sitting dormant until the following turn; that single point of recouped mana is the entire reason this style of ramp reads better than its tapped cousins. The "Forest card" wording, rather than "basic Forest," is where the design quietly widens its reach. Any land carrying the Forest subtype qualifies, so shocklands like Breeding Pool, Temple Garden, and Stomping Ground all answer the search, fetching fixing and a green source in one motion. The sorcery-speed restriction keeps it from becoming an instant-speed mana ambush, and the mandatory shuffle (standard for tutor effects) clears whatever was stacked on top. As ramp it does nothing flashy: no card, no body, no relevance once the manabase is built. What it offers instead is reprint equity. An effect this clean, duplicated under a second name, lets a deck run more than four copies of one job, raising the odds of finding the acceleration when it matters most. Redundancy is the whole reason to print the same spell twice.

Three Visits (msc)
MSC · #181uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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