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Boom Scholar
Oracle Text
Exhaust abilities of other permanents you control cost {2} less to activate.
Exhaust — {4}{R}{G}: Creatures and Vehicles you control gain trample until end of turn. Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
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Character Background
Boom Scholar reads like a compact engine for Gruul midrange that also nudges you toward an aggressive, value-oriented game plan: a 3/3 for {1}{R}{G} that makes the activated "exhaust" abilities of your other permanents {2} cheaper is excellent at turning single big activations into repeatable tempo turns. The card’s exhaust ability — a pricey {4}{R}{G} pump and trample-for-all — is less about its one-shot effect and more about the synergy it enables: reducing costs lets you trigger multiple vehicle or creature exhaust effects in the same turn, crew bigger Vehicles while granting trample and meanwhile putting counters back on the board. Deckbuilding tip: load the deck with permanents that have exhaust costs (Vehicles and creatures with exhaust-style activations), add reliable green ramp or cheap mana rocks to hit activation windows, and include ways to benefit from +1/+1 counters (evasion or buffs). Thematically, the goblin advisor is the tinkerer who shaves activation costs and orchestrates explosive assaults — perfect for a tempo/value hybrid that turns activations into lethal turns.
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Character Background
Boom Scholar reads like a compact engine for Gruul midrange that also nudges you toward an aggressive, value-oriented game plan: a 3/3 for {1}{R}{G} that makes the activated "exhaust" abilities of your other permanents {2} cheaper is excellent at turning single big activations into repeatable tempo turns. The card’s exhaust ability — a pricey {4}{R}{G} pump and trample-for-all — is less about its one-shot effect and more about the synergy it enables: reducing costs lets you trigger multiple vehicle or creature exhaust effects in the same turn, crew bigger Vehicles while granting trample and meanwhile putting counters back on the board. Deckbuilding tip: load the deck with permanents that have exhaust costs (Vehicles and creatures with exhaust-style activations), add reliable green ramp or cheap mana rocks to hit activation windows, and include ways to benefit from +1/+1 counters (evasion or buffs). Thematically, the goblin advisor is the tinkerer who shaves activation costs and orchestrates explosive assaults — perfect for a tempo/value hybrid that turns activations into lethal turns.
Generated using gpt-5-mini · Updated at 2026-05-16 16:20:46 UTC