Simulacrum Shaper
FRA · rare · Released 2026-10-02
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Derived from the 7 atoms below.
above rate
meaningful alone
fits anywhere
fixed effect
one mode
broadly useful
comes back
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Rationale
3cmc 2/2 Elf Druid that fetches a basic land to battlefield tapped on ETB AND draws a card on death — this bundles Cultivate-style ramp with a Elvish Visionary-style body and a Reassembling Skeleton-style death trigger into one creature. It's modular green value in ramp/midrange/lands-matter and pulls double duty in Elf tribal. Resilient: dying replaces itself with a card, so removal doesn't fully two-for-one you.
Learnings (2)
Simulacrum Shaper is notable for combining a ramp ETB (land to battlefield) with a card-draw death trigger on a 3cmc body — this makes it resilient to removal in a way Cultivate never is, since single-target removal converts it into a cantrip rather than a clean two-for-one.
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In Elf tribal decks, it contributes creature count for lord pumps and convoke while also providing genuine ramp, a combination rarely seen on a 3cmc common Elf body.
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Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #16,301