Patient Naturalist — Quiet Scout of the Frontier Patient Naturalist offers a pragmatic way to dig for lands while advancing your graveyard. On entry you mill three cards and may return a land among them to your hand; if none appear you receive a Treasure token. The body is compact and efficient at {2}{G} with a 2/3 frame that can trade favorably in the early turns or soak removal while your bigger plays assemble.
This card rewards deliberate sequencing and deckbuilding that accepts milling as resource conversion. It works well in landfall shells and value-oriented midrange lists that reuse the graveyard. The card reads like an Outlaws of Thunder Junction scout who catalogs the terrain, taking what is useful and leaving the rest for later reclamation.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost — {2}{G}
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Card Type — Creature
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Subtypes — Human Scout
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) — When Patient Naturalist enters the battlefield, mill three cards. Put a land card from among the milled cards into your hand. If you can’t, create a Treasure token. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
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Power / Toughness — 2/3
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Set — Outlaws of Thunder Junction
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Rarity — Common
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Language — English
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Condition — Near Mint