Daily Card Redesign #166: Quirion Elves

Daily Card Redesign is a daily Magic: The Gathering design exercise where I randomly choose a card for the scenario of it being scrapped late during its own set's development. I design a replacement card that uses the same art, is the same color(s), is the same rarity, and has a name that, alphabetically, keeps it within the same collector number for the set.

ORIGINAL:

REDESIGN:

I'm not sure how important this card was to multicolored play in Mirage (I know it was reprinted later where its multicolored-faceted ability was more valuable), so I decided to not be constricted by it - besides, Rampant Growth exists within the same set at common.

I decided to switch this up to one of those creatures that fetches lands from the library to put into your hand, like Borderland Ranger. The above redesign you see hasn't been done before. It's similar to Sylvan Ranger. Just take away the freedom to search for any basic land and replace it with an extra point of toughness, and you get a new card - and one that makes sense given that the art depicts more than one Elf (more than one toughness).

Also, the art matches the whole "looking for new lands" thing that this card does mechanically.