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Traveling Botanist TDM 0164 · uncommon

Traveling Botanist · {1}{G} · Creature — Dog Scout · Whenever this creature becomes tapped, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard. · Power / toughness: 2/3 · Every part of every plant is useful—for food, for medicine, and for ceremonies.

Traveling Botanist · {1}{G} · Creature — Dog Scout · Whenever this creature becomes tapped, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard. · Power / toughness: 2/3 · Every part of every plant is useful—for food, for medicine, and for ceremonies.

Price
from $0.261 printing
Win rate
59.4% GIH 35,173 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · 17Lands
Draft
◆ Key pickWhenever it becomes tapped, inspect the top card: take a land or optionally mill a nonland. Harmonize lets it supply this selection without attacking into a poor block.

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 20,903 wins in 35,173 card-in-hand instances.

33,115 distinct games · 11,675 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 8–May 14, 2025.

17Lands file dated May 19, 2025 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Play

Red–Green · Red–GreenRed–Green plan →

Whenever it becomes tapped, inspect the top card: take a land or optionally mill a nonland. Harmonize lets it supply this selection without attacking into a poor block.

How this changes your picks

Rules-derived
Take it when
Develop creatures with useful tap triggers, use green fixing, and reuse removal or pump through harmonize. Blue Temur cards require support in the mana base.
What to take next
Tap Botanist or Rescue Leopard to reduce a harmonize cost. Their tap triggers supply selection while the creature’s power pays only generic mana.
Wrong pick
The red Charring Bite Omen is usable without white mana, but its white Dragon side is not. Casting the Omen shuffles the card away rather than saving a later creature cast.
Mana & splash
Keep the colored sources needed for early spells. A synergy payoff does not automatically justify a splash.

More

One-pick Draft
Whenever it becomes tapped, inspect the top card: take a land or optionally mill a nonland. Harmonize lets it supply this selection without attacking into a poor block.
Sealed vs Draft
Whenever it becomes tapped, inspect the top card: take a land or optionally mill a nonland. Harmonize lets it supply this selection without attacking into a poor block.

Draft data

59.4%when drawn (GIH)

+4.4 pp vs 55.0% average · 35,173 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · average from 552,428 games

#33 of 252 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 2.7 on average (38,729 packs).

3 of 34 green cards · 1 of 13 green uncommon cards.

Taken at pick3.115,217 picks
Makes the deck90.7%15,217 picks with known usage
When played55.7%75,411.1 matchesBenched 54.0%
4,015.9 matches
When drawn59.4%35,173 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 8–May 14, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 62.3% · 14,494 instances
● Drawn later 57.4% · 20,679 instances

In hand 59.4% · 35,173 instances
Unseen in deck 53.3% · 44,399 instances
+6.1 percentage points when drawn

Compared with green cards

Win rate when drawn59.4%35,173 instances3 of 34
Opening hand62.3%14,494 instances2 of 34
Drawn later57.4%20,679 instances16 of 34
In the deck56.0%80,310 instances3 of 34
Without seeing it53.3%44,399 instances12 of 34
Improvement when drawn+6.1 pp35,173 instances / 44,399 instances7 of 34
When benched54.0%4,015.9 matches27 of 34
Makes the deck90.7%15,217 picks with known usage4 of 34
Pick (last seen)2.738,729 packs8 of 34
Taken at3.115,217 picks8 of 34

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Counters BG61.7% ◌460 instancesLeaves the Graveyard UG61.7% ◌256 instancesRed–Green RG63.2%19 instances · under 100Green–White GW56.7%67 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (59.4% · 35,173 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Rally the Monastery+9.0 pp1,937 games with both in the deck · 406 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 87% of 252 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 8–May 14, 2025

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

TDM 0164 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · MTGO Redemption$0.26
FoilPlay Booster$0.31

How to get it

A fixed card in MTGO Redemption. It is not a booster pull, so no chance is claimed.

Wizards · Collecting Tarkir: Dragonstorm ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Daneen Wilkerson, TDM 164 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Red–Green cards → · Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Tarkir: Dragonstorm · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗