Colossal Rattlewurm

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A 6/5 trample for 4 that gains flash in Desert-heavy builds, making it a surprise blocker or threat; the graveyard activated ability tutors a Desert directly to the battlefield, enabling repeated land-advantage in lands-matter shells. Signature in Desert-matters and lands-matter strategies where it functions as both a threat and a land engine from the graveyard. Conditional flash limits its flexibility outside Desert-focused decks.

• The flash condition requires controlling a Desert at cast time, not at the time you declare flash — losing your last Desert in response to an instant removes the flash window for that same spell.

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• The graveyard activation is an exile-cost tutor that puts the Desert onto the battlefield tapped, functioning like a repeatable ramp-spell from the graveyard rather than a standard recursion effect — it does not return the Rattlewurm itself.

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• In Commander formats with a Desert sub-theme (e.g., Hazezon, Shaper of Sand or Anim Pakal), this card functions as a 4-mana 6/5 flash threat AND a Desert tutor in one, providing unusually high rate for its slot.

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• EDHREC rank: #9,385