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Yanling's Harbinger

Creature — Bird3 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

One search target, hardcoded by name: this Bird finds Mu Yanling, Celestial Wind and nothing else. That single-name lock is what makes the design unusual. Most blue creature tutors pull from a broad category (an instant, an artifact, whatever the controller wants at a cost); here the search is welded to one planeswalker, which turns the card into a consistency engine rather than a flexible toolbox. The graveyard clause is the part doing real work: because it can search the yard as well as the library, a Mu Yanling that got countered, discarded, or milled is recoverable, so the two-card pair behaves almost like a four-copy planeswalker package. The 2/4 flying body is defensive by intent, not threatening: it walls off the early aggression a five-drop search creature would otherwise fold to, buying the time for the planeswalker it just retrieved to start ticking. That pairing (an evasive blocker plus guaranteed access to a specific bomb, even one already dead once) is the entire point. The card is not built to win on its stats; it exists to fetch a particular planeswalker into hand whenever it enters the battlefield. Remove the named target and there is no card left; the identity is wholly in service to Mu Yanling.

Yanling's Harbinger (m20)
M20 · #289rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Mu Yanling, Celestial Wind, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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