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Radagast of Rhosgobel
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A premium creature-ramp engine that stabilizes with a 2/5 body, discounts your first creature each turn, and lets you deploy threats at instant speed. It is strongest in a creature-dense deck with expensive creatures and can generate substantial mana and tempo across both players' turns.
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Play around this
Once Radagast is in play, assume its controller can flash in a discounted creature before committing to combat; attack and block with potential surprise bodies in mind.
Gameplay notes
Cast the discounted creature before any other creature each turn, since only the first creature spell receives the reduction. When possible, use the ability once on your turn and again on the opponent's turn, and remember that the discount cannot pay colored mana requirements.
Key synergies
Radagast makes expensive creature spells easier to cast without changing their mana value, so Dancing still places the full number of counters. Granting flash also lets you cast creatures on opponents' turns and trigger Dancing more than once per round.
Radagast reduces the Notary's cost from five to three mana and lets it be cast with flash. Casting it during the opponent's end step allows all three Hobbits to untap ready to produce at least nine colorless mana.
Radagast reduces Old Fat Spider's cost from six mana to four and grants it flash, letting you deploy the 6/7 as an unexpected reach blocker while preserving mana during the opponent's turn.
Radagast reduces Gandalf's casting cost to three mana and allows him to be cast with flash, making it much easier to deploy the large warded body while preserving mana for interaction.
Radagast reduces Large Bear's cost from five mana to three, producing an exceptionally efficient 5/5 haste threat and leaving mana available for another play.
The discount makes this normally seven-mana threat castable for five mana, while flash allows the hexproof 10/7 to arrive at the end of an opponent's turn and attack immediately with haste.
Radagast reduces Boughside Wanderers from six mana to four and grants flash, letting you add a 4/4 blocker while immediately receiving its permanent-card selection.
Radagast reduces Wood Elves to just {G} and gives it flash, letting its Forest ramp and Landfall trigger be deployed cheaply and at instant speed.
Radagast reduces Gandalf's creature-spell cost by {2}, letting this six-mana removal threat arrive a turn earlier, and flash allows Gandalf's divided damage to disrupt combat.
Radagast is another Wizard, so controlling him keeps the two cards banked by Flameshape playable even if Gandalf has not yet been cast or has been removed.