Part of the rare extension of the 5 "bad" "timeshifted" cards in the set, which I talked about on Elf Pactmaker. The rares all do something different, so don't think that the Pearled Unicorn Leader does something this awkward. I should hope that most people can figure out why the lord of the Quirion Trailblazers is doing something so strange.

Of the 5 'useless' creatures, Quirion Trailblazer is the closest to being relevant in a normal draft environment. It just costs too much... but nothing crazy. I assume people draft them as normal cards on occasion, which is why I kept the Trailblazer at just two copies.

Mmm... it's "put two basic lands into play tapped" with "And do it again, later, for 4 per land and get a 1/2"... Which aint bad. But 5 is a bit late to be fixing your mana screw. Very flavourful though; since the problem with the creature it's lording over is mana-screw-fixing but a bit too late :) And all of the "Hey, I have more cards in hand now, maybe I can do something with them" stuff.

Not sure whether or not I like it; but at only 1/2 for 5 mana, I'm be unlikely to ever play it. Perhaps the getting them back into hand could be optional? Allowing you to play this as "I need a 3/6 in a hurry, forget the land!" when you needed to?

Yeah, I'd say the bounce should be optional; either that or this should be a 4/4, by modern power levels :/

To be honest, I saw this in action, and found it to be dominating. Combined with this sets version of Kor Skyfisher, this can add up to a lot of chump blockers and a pile of land. I suppose it needs to be seen in action.

That was... probably an incorrect response. It's much easier for me to be defensive about 20XX since it's been playtested, and a lot of the cards work fine within their system. That being said, this creature doesn't look appetizing as a 1/2, even if it performs perfectly well. That makes sense, and I'm changing it to a 2/4. So now you can compare this card to Ondu Giant... and the comparison comes out more favorably. It's probably not broken, either.