Molt Tender
Mana Cost:
Type: Creature — Insect Druid
Oracle Text:
{T}: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
{T}, Exile a card from your graveyard: Add one mana of any color.
Power/Toughness: 1/1
Rarity: uncommon
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Aetherdrift
Price ( USD): $0.35
USD: $0.35 · EUR: €0.28
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Character Background
Molt Tender is a compact utility piece that best supports value- and combo-oriented graveyard strategies while doubling as flexible mana-fixing for multi‑color builds: its first ability mills a card to reliably stock your graveyard, and its second converts a removed graveyard card into one mana of any color, effectively turning yard resources into acceleration. In practical play it shines in midrange/combo shells that want both graveyard fuel and early ramp—think delve payoffs, flashback spells, or reanimation decks—rather than pure aggro, since it’s a 1/1 and vulnerable to removal. Deckbuilding tip: run cheap self-millers like Stitcher’s Supplier or Satyr Wayfinder and a couple of recursion engines or discard outlets so Tender’s exile cost is rarely a bottleneck; it’s also excellent in three-color lists where consistent splash mana matters. Thematically, the insect druid evokes a creature that feeds on molted memories to grow the hive’s resources, which matches its mechanical role as a small, repeatable engine that trades cards for mana and graveyard value.
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