Sand Scout offers practical utility for decks that prize resource parity and Desert synergies. When Sand Scout enters the battlefield it can fetch a Desert tapped if an opponent has more lands than you, which helps stabilize mana while advancing a land based plan. Its steady 2 2 body interacts well with combat and token engines, and the triggered token ability rewards burial of lands from any source.
In table play Sand Scout fills two roles at once. It is a catch up tool early and a token producer later when lands hit the graveyard, generating 1 1 red green and white Sand Warrior creature tokens once each turn. The card reads and plays cleanly in multiplayer Commander builds from Commander Outlaws of Thunder Junction that lean into graveyard interaction or need resilient ways to populate the board.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost {1}{W}
- Card Type Creature
- Subtypes Human Scout
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) When Sand Scout enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a Desert card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, create a 1/1 red, green, and white Sand Warrior creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
- Power / Toughness 2/2