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Erica Ortegas, Plucky Pilot

Erica Ortegas, Plucky Pilot

Legendary Creature — Human Pilot

Erica Ortegas wants a deck that gets a reward every time it plays a land. It also works in a deck built around Humans or Pilots.

  • Mana cost3 genericred
  • Red ()
  • Power / toughness3 / 3
  • RarityUncommon

Haste

Whenever Erica Ortegas becomes tapped, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you do, return a land you control to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

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Archetypes
Themes
  • Humans
  • Pilots

Cards That Fit Erica Ortegas, Plucky Pilot

Picked for what they do in Erica Ortegas's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Erica Ortegas's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Erica Ortegas, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryRPlayers write colors as letters: R for red.LandfallLandfall decks reward you each time a land enters the battlefield for you, then find ways to play extra lands. You can normally play only one land a turn, so cards that let you play more, or pull lands out of your deck, make everything happen more often.Open the Landfall pageExtra Land DropLets you put down more than one land in a turn. The normal limit is exactly one, so this both accelerates your mana and switches on everything that triggers when a land enters play. Exploration, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Oracle of Mul DayaOpen the Extra Land Drop pageRampAn effect that accelerates your mana, giving you a reusable mana source beyond the usual one land per turn. Cultivate Rampant GrowthOpen the Ramp page