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Baxter, Fly in the Ointment
Legendary Creature — Insect Mutant Scientist
NM
LP
MP
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uncommon · Sorcery
Lessons from Life
$0.24
Low
$0.28
Market
$0.35
High
Oracle Text
Draw three cards. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Card Details
-/-Power / Toughness
Mana Cost1Prints
Character Background
Lessons from Life is a clean expression of growth through survival: you study the battlefield, learn from the setbacks, and come back ahead on cards and resources. In gameplay terms, this is a strong value and midrange enabler, with clear appeal to control shells that want to hit land drops while refilling their hand. At five mana, drawing three already stabilizes your position, and the optional land drop helps you convert that new grip into immediate tempo, especially after you’ve spent earlier turns interacting. It pairs well with shuffle effects, extra land drops, and cards that care about lands entering the battlefield, since even a tapped land can still trigger those payoffs. In Commander, it is especially useful in Simic decks that want to ramp without losing card parity, while in limited it can turn a stalled board into a winning resource lead.
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Character Background
Lessons from Life is a clean expression of growth through survival: you study the battlefield, learn from the setbacks, and come back ahead on cards and resources. In gameplay terms, this is a strong value and midrange enabler, with clear appeal to control shells that want to hit land drops while refilling their hand. At five mana, drawing three already stabilizes your position, and the optional land drop helps you convert that new grip into immediate tempo, especially after you’ve spent earlier turns interacting. It pairs well with shuffle effects, extra land drops, and cards that care about lands entering the battlefield, since even a tapped land can still trigger those payoffs. In Commander, it is especially useful in Simic decks that want to ramp without losing card parity, while in limited it can turn a stalled board into a winning resource lead.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 17:10:46 UTC