Nicanzil, Current Conductor

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Nicanzil is a 2/3 for {G}{U} that rewards explore triggers — land explores put a land from hand to battlefield tapped (free ramp/landfall), nonland explores add a +1/+1 counter to herself. Signature in explore-matters shells that naturally pair with merfolk/scout typal and lands-matter strategies, and grows into a counters-voltron threat over time. Outside a dedicated explore density shell, both triggered abilities rarely fire, making this deeply build-around and narrow in impact.

• Nicanzil's land-explore trigger says 'put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped' — this is NOT a land-search or fetch effect; you must already have a land in hand, so it rewards hand-size and land-heavy deckbuilding rather than acting as standalone ramp.

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• Explore in Commander is primarily found on Merfolk (Merfolk Branchwalker, Jadelight Ranger) and Ixalan-era creatures; Nicanzil effectively functions as a payoff commander for a niche subtheme that rarely appears in standalone goodstuff decks.

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• The two triggers are independent and conditional on the revealed card type — in practice, a 50/50 split between land and nonland means each trigger fires roughly half as often as the explore count, reducing overall reliability significantly.

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• EDHREC rank: #5,105