Ooze Patrol
Creature — Ooze
When this creature enters, mill two cards, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each artifact and/or creature card in your graveyard. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
As it digested the demonic roadster, it too learned the thrill of speed.
Strategy & Gameplay
This green creature from the Duskfall Trends set offers an intriguing value proposition for players looking to build around graveyard synergies and self-mill strategies. Coming in at three mana for a 2/2 body, Ooze Patrol immediately generates card advantage through its enters-the-battlefield effect, which mills two cards and then counts both artifact and creature cards already present in your graveyard to pump itself with +1/+1 counters. This dual function makes it particularly appealing in decks that already feature self-mill mechanics or intentionally stock their graveyards as part of their core strategy, transforming what might otherwise be a modest 2/2 into a considerably larger threat. The card fits naturally into several archetypal strategies, including dedicated mill decks where the milling becomes both a mill effect and a scaling mechanism, graveyard-focused archetypes like Living Death strategies or reanimation shells, and even artifact-heavy decks that benefit from having artifacts in the graveyard for other payoffs. Given its broad legal status across Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Commander, and numerous other formats, Ooze Patrol presents options for players at nearly every competitive and casual level. The card proves most effective in constructed environments where you can reliably fill your graveyard before casting it or pair it with other mill effects to maximize its power boost, making it a flexible addition to any deck architecture that values graveyard interaction and synergy-based gameplay over straight creature efficiency.
Illustrated by Forrest Schehl