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Trail of Mystery

Enchantment1 generic manaGreen mana

Face-down creatures have always been a deferred transaction: pay mana now, buy the text later, and hope the reveal lands when it matters. This enchantment backloads value onto both ends of that transaction so the deferral becomes accumulation. The two triggers attack the two structural weaknesses of casting creatures face-down. The first rewards deployment: every face-down creature that enters fetches a basic land, smoothing the manabase you need to actually pay the unmorph costs the strategy leans on. The second rewards the reveal: any creature turned face up swings for +2/+2 that turn, converting the flip from a tempo-neutral information trade into a combat threat. What makes the design coherent is that a deck built to turn creatures face up already wants to do both things repeatedly, and here both are rewards rather than costs. The land-fetch shuffles away and caps at basics, keeping it a curve-smoother rather than a tutor, while the buff is fleeting (until end of turn) so it pushes the flip-and-attack tempo line that these decks otherwise lack. It is a glue piece for a mechanic that rarely got one: an enchantment that assembles a deck out of cards that would otherwise sit as slightly awkward vanilla bodies waiting for their text to arrive.

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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, if it's a creature, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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