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Valley Rannet

Creature — Beast4 generic manaRed manaGreen mana

The 6/3 body is the part you mostly never see. A two-color landcycler like this exists to be functionally two cards: a fetch effect when your hand is starved of color, a closer when the game has stalled and you want something to actually cast. The dual landcycling is what makes the toggle worth it. Mountaincycling and forestcycling each fetch any Mountain or Forest card, which in practice means any basic in either color, so the card smooths a Gruul manabase from whichever end is short. That flexibility is the reason the body can be this brittle: three toughness on a six-mana creature is a deliberately poor rate, because the design assumes most copies get pitched for two mana long before they ever swing. When you do hard-cast it, you are spending six for a glass cannon that any cleared combat or two-for-one removal punishes hard, and that is the bargain: full price for the rare turns the late game wants a finisher instead of a fixer. Beasts with grafted-on cycling like this answer flood and screw at once, the card that is never quite dead in hand because it is two different spells wearing one frame.

Valley Rannet (c13)
C13 · #224common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Mountaincycling 2 generic mana, forestcycling 2 generic mana (2 generic mana, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
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
N/A
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