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World Shaper

Creature — Merfolk Shaman3 generic manaGreen mana

The trick here is that the two abilities are designed to be self-feeding. Attacking mills three cards, which loads the graveyard with lands; then the body dies and dumps every one of those lands onto the battlefield tapped. The first ability is the fuel, the second is the payoff, and a single creature carries both halves of the loop. Older self-mill ramp usually needed a separate engine to convert a stocked graveyard into board state; this design folds fuel and payoff into one 3/3. The tapped clause is the cost that keeps the payoff from being free: the returned lands arrive asleep, so even when you cash in on your own turn, the mana explosion is delayed a turn rather than immediate. The dies trigger also reframes how you want to use the body. A 3/3 that wants to attack and a 3/3 that wants to die pull in opposite directions, and this card asks for both: swing to fill the yard, then feed it to a sacrifice outlet or throw it in front of a blocker to collect. It rewards a deck willing to spend its own creature, which is a less common ask than ramp normally makes. The land mass it returns scales with how long you have been milling, so the same card can return two lands in a curve-out or six in a grinding game, and the upside is entirely a function of how patiently the graveyard was built.

World Shaper (otc)
OTC · #214rare
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Normal: $7.09
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, you may mill three cards. When this creature dies, return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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