Curious Forager
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
BloomburrowBLB · #169
- Card type
- Creature — Squirrel Druid
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.13 € · ★ 0.16 € · 0.25 $ · ★ 0.35 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Green
Card text
When this creature enters, you may forage. When you do, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.)
Format legality
- AlchemyLegal
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Mariah Tekulve
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-08-02
Flavour text
The bones of Calamity Beasts are sometimes buried in caches where their power can grow quietly.
Rulings
If you don't have enough cards in your graveyard or a Food on the battlefield, you can't choose to forage.
Once you announce that you're casting a spell or activating an ability, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove cards from your graveyard or Foods you control to stop you from foraging.
You don't choose a target for Curious Forager's ability at the time it triggers. Rather, a second "reflexive" ability triggers when you forage this way. You choose a target for this ability as it goes on the stack. Each player may respond to this triggered ability as normal.
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.