Old Thrush
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Old Thrush is a low-impact flying blocker that gains life and guarantees your next draw is a basic land, providing useful color fixing without generating card advantage. It is solid role-player filler in slower or multicolor decks, especially GU Landfall.
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Gameplay notes
The searched land goes on top rather than into your hand, so Old Thrush fixes your next draw but does not create card advantage or immediate ramp. Avoid using the search when you urgently need to draw action, and remember that shuffling afterward may remove the chosen land from the top.
Key synergies
Old Thrush puts a basic land on top of your library, so Silvan Reveler's enters ability immediately draws that known land and can discard it onto the battlefield tapped, turning the setup into ramp without losing a card.
Returning Old Thrush turns its small body into a delayed 4/4 flier, and replaying it later repeats the life gain and basic-land setup.
Chapter II can return Old Thrush directly to the battlefield, retriggering both its life gain and its ability to place a needed basic land on top of your library.
Old Thrush is inexpensive to replay, letting Nurturer become a 4/3 while a later recast gains 2 more life and places another basic land on top of the library.
Old Thrush ensures a land is available on the following turn, helping Company use its additional land play and trigger its powerful Landfall ability.
Old Thrush can put a basic land on top of your library, securing a future land drop and Hospitality trigger when your hand would otherwise run out of lands.
If Old Thrush places a basic land on top of your library, casting Wood Elves afterward shuffles the library and can lose that guaranteed next draw, so the enters abilities must be sequenced carefully.
Old Thrush can place a basic land on top of your library, helping guarantee the next land drop that permanently increases Mirkwood Pathmaker's power and toughness.
Old Thrush is a cheap flier that immediately contributes one power to the cost reduction, while its land search helps ensure the deck keeps making land drops toward casting The Lord of the Eagles.