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Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood

Sorcery // Land

A seven-mana creature-cheat that digs seven deep and slams a hit onto the battlefield for free would ordinarily be a coin-flip you can't afford: brilliant on turn seven, a bricked hand if you draw it early. The back half solves that. Because the card can always be played as a green source (paying three life to have it enter untapped, or eating the tapped clause when the life total won't allow it), the sorcery mode is free to be greedy without ever occupying a slot better spent on a real spell. Structural insurance is what lets the front half swing for the fences, and swing it does. The +1/+1 counter clause inverts the usual reanimator payoff: instead of rewarding you for hauling out something enormous, it inflates the cheap end, so a mana-value-three body arrives with three extra counters, a genuine threat rather than a whiff. That asymmetry (fatties come down as printed, small creatures come down bulked up) dictates what deck wants this: not a top-heavy pile of finishers, but a green midrange shell where any creature off the top can justify the seven mana. The randomized bottoming keeps it honest as a payoff rather than a tutor; you take what the top seven offers, no more. Payoff and land in one card, the design trick that earns a seven-drop a home in decks that would never sleeve a straight seven-drop.

Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood (znr)
ZNR · #364mythic
Pricing
Normal: $5.20
Foil: $6.03
Oracle Text

Rules text

Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. If that card has mana value 3 or less, it enters with three additional +1/+1 counters on it. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. // As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. Tap: Add Green mana.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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