Hotstart Trickster
Ghitu Lavarunner is a compact red one drop that earns its place in spell forward builds. On turn one it presents a 1 2 body that pressures life totals and trades favorably against early blockers. With two or more instant or sorcery cards in your graveyard Ghitu Lavarunner becomes a stronger, haste bearing threat that turns every burn and cantrip into tempo. Experienced players will recognize how easily it advances an early clock while enabling bolt paths and sacrifice synergies.
The Foundations print captures the card art and flavor cleanly and the Light Play condition is a practical pick for play or cube. Use Ghitu Lavarunner in aggressive red decks, spells matters archetypes, or as a one mana incentive to seed your graveyard for later turns. It slots into sideboard plans against control and scales well in limited formats. Add it to a decklist when you need a reliable opener that punishes slow starts and rewards proactive spell sequencing.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {R}
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Card Type – Creature
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Subtypes – Human Wizard
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – As long as there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+0 and has haste. (It can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
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Power / Toughness – 1/2
