Guru Pathik
Mana Cost:
Type: Legendary Creature — Human Monk Ally
Oracle Text:
When Guru Pathik enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a Lesson, Saga, or Shrine card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Whenever you cast a Lesson, Saga, or Shrine spell, put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.
Power/Toughness: 2/4
Rarity: uncommon
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price ( USD): $0.18
USD: $0.18 · EUR: €0.14
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Character Background
Guru Pathik is a value-oriented midrange piece that smooths your game plan by digging for Lesson, Saga, or Shrine answers while providing a stout 2/4 body and incremental board growth—best in decks that want resilient incremental advantage rather than pure aggro or linear combo. The enter-the-battlefield selection from five cards makes him a consistency engine for a lesson/saga package, and the on-cast triggers turn each Lesson or Saga into a free +1/+1 counter on another creature, incentivizing a build that plays many cheap, repeatable Lessons or multiple Sagas that resolve over turns. Practical synergies include Hardened Scales or other counter-doubling effects to magnify each trigger, token generators or creatures that care about counters as beneficiaries, and cheap card-draw or top-deck manipulation so Pathik reliably finds a target. Deckbuilding tip: prioritize low-cost Lessons and at least three Sagas/Shrines to maximize triggers, and include ways to capitalize on growing creatures (combat tricks, anthem effects, or proliferate) to close games.
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