Price$16.42 – $23.09
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Creature — Insect Scout
LegalRank #784
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, mill a card.
2/4
Why is this card good?
Icetill Explorer is a quietly excellent landfall engine that pulls triple duty: extra land drops, graveyard recursion, and self-mill. The synergy here is the point — milling lands into your graveyard, which you can then replay thanks to the second ability. It's a self-feeding loop in any deck that cares about lands hitting the battlefield.
Where it shines:
- Landfall decks (Aesi, Tatyova, Omnath) that turn extra land drops into card draw, tokens, or damage.
- Lands-matter and graveyard-recursion builds (Lord Windgrace, Yarok doubling everything) where milling lands is upside, not risk.
- Crab/mill-adjacent strategies that want lands in the yard for retrieval rather than just losing them.
At four mana, it's a body that immediately enables value without needing setup, which is rare for a green ramp piece.
Skip it in decks with no landfall payoffs or graveyard recursion — then it's just a vanilla 2/2 that mills you, and accidental self-mill can hurt single-card combo lines or thin libraries you want to keep stocked.
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Azusa, Lost but Seeking
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