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Wanderer's Twig

Artifact1 generic mana

Fixing you can sit on. The total price is two mana and a sacrifice, split across two turns, and that split is the entire reason to run it: drop the artifact early when you have nothing better to do, then hold the crack until you actually know which basic you are short. You commit no land drop and no full turn of mana to a single point in the game. It does not tap for mana and it does not put the land onto the battlefield, so calling it ramp misreads the job; this is deck-thinning and color-smoothing deferred to the moment you need it, with a card spent now for a guaranteed land later. Set against a fetchland or a one-shot land-tutor sorcery, the appeal is that flexibility in timing rather than speed or selection breadth. The sacrifice clause does turn it into a small cog in decks that reward artifacts entering and leaving the battlefield, though that is a happy accident the design was plainly not built around. Utility fixing for decks that want a basic locked in but can afford to wait a turn for it: a low ceiling, no real downside, and exactly as much text as the task demands.

Wanderer's Twig (lrw)
LRW · #265common
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $2.85
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic mana, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land 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
Legal
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