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Traveling Chocobo

Creature — Bird2 generic manaGreen mana

The third line is where this stops being a top-of-library Bird payoff and turns into an engine piece. Reading the top card and playing lands or Birds off it is familiar ground: Oracle of Mul Daya and Courser of Kruphix have handed green players a wider land clock for years. But the doubling clause reaches sideways into the landfall and enters-the-battlefield space that green and its partner colors are built around. Every land you drop, every Bird that resolves, checks whether it lit up a triggered ability of a permanent you control, and if it did, that ability fires twice. Play a fetch land into a Lotus Cobra and you get two mana triggers; drop a land with Tireless Provisioner in play and you double the token or the Treasure. What keeps this from being a blanket doubler is the entry condition: the trigger has to come from a land or a Bird entering, not from anything else, which means the more of your triggers a deckbuilder routes through those two entry points, the more the clause pays. It leans on two of the oldest green engine axes at once, the top-of-library grind and the landfall cascade, and rewards stacking them rather than picking one. The body is incidental; the value lives in how many times per turn a permanent's enter-trigger can be made to count double.

Traveling Chocobo (pfin)
PFIN · #210smythic
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Oracle Text

Rules text

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast Bird spells from the top of your library. If a land or Bird you control entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Legalities

Format Status

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