River Scout of the Caverns

River Herald Guide is a concise addition to green decks that need steady card advantage and a body on the board. River Herald Guide enters as a 3 1 creature with vigilance, so it can both block and keep pressure up. The explore trigger turns the top of your deck into either immediate value or a growth opportunity for the creature, which makes this card useful in midgame tempo lines and decks that care about +1 counters.

In practical play the card doubles as a searcher and a tempo piece. You can use the explore to find a land and accelerate or to draw a nonland and increase your board presence. The flavor fits Lost Caverns of Ixalan: a Merfolk Scout who maps river secrets and returns to shore carrying whatever the current yields. For deck builders this card slots into creature heavy builds and value oriented green lists where incremental advantage wins the long game.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost {2}{G}
• Card Type Creature, Merfolk Scout
• Subtypes Merfolk Scout
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) Vigilance. When River Herald Guide enters the battlefield, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it is a land. Otherwise put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
• Power / Toughness 3/1