Pointed Discussion

For one mana this card really can become a game changer early on.

She is the best among a group of creatures which try to do similar land acceleration. Skyshroud Ranger is only usable during your turn, Krosan Wayfarer has to sacrifice himself and Elvish Pioneer is a one-shot when he enters play.
Possible application areas: Limited Resources, Mana Breach and/or Overburden, Moonfolk-Deck (Meloku the Clouded Mirror)

I find this card gets overlooked to often in favor of sakura tribe elder. This card has so many useful applications, for example I play uyo in my deck, if I fork a spell once a turn I can still use this card to return a second land to the field next turn. Another nice trick is any of the dual mana producing lands such as izzet boilerworks that requires a bounce of another land to play it, you can now bounce the land and put it right back into play. In an optimal game you draw this card on turn 1 and play an extra land every turn, even if it gets killed on turn 3 your nicely ahead of the game in terms of mana. Later on if you have it in your hand or on the battlefield and no lands left to play, you can still have sachi grant her tap for 2 mana ability available to shamans. With this scout you can potentially have up to 5 mana on turn 2 with, turn 1: play forest, play sakura scout. Turn 2: play your second land, have scout play another land from your hand, tap 1 land, enchant second land with the 1 mana using utopia sprawl, use the new 2 mana to enchant third land with fertile ground, boom you have 5 mana and its only turn 2. That means on turn 3, when you can put down another land and use her yet again, you can have up to 7, that means your casting flameblast dragons on turn 3, which is pretty game ending.

Update: Zendikar mechanic keyword landfall just made this card very uber, rampaging baloths gets 4/4 token when land enters the battlefield.. you now have 2 lands entering the battlefield or even on your opponents turn due to your shiny sakura scout, and you are getting 2, 4/4 tokens per turn. Awesomeness (also try plated geopede for more awesomeness). Sakura tribe scout is now potentially better than a birds of paradise, surprise!

I block with the Scout, tap it, put out a forest, and tap it for Giant Growth. Surprise!

looks like a nice card to combo early game with Yavimaya Elder. It's a very different type of mana accel than simple land fetching, and so rigged with landfall. It's also a creature that's on the borderline for players when considering whether or not to spend their removal on it, which can be very useful, either way they end up deciding. Not great loss if they kill it, but a great gain if they leave it.

Walking Atlas does the same thing, but in colorless, so any deck can have the same kind of acceleration.

Great for Landfall on your opponent's turn

@syra: She's a one-drop, and has much more useful creature types, especially in Kamigawa.

This + Quirion Elves = infinite landfall.

Snake Shaman Scout?

Added alliterative appeal?

Wait wait wait...a Walking Atlas for half the mana? Count me in! It's like a Llanowar Elves, except better in the early game when you have more lands in your hand

Did anyone notice this pretty much an Exploration on legs?
The major difference is that you won't be able to play a second land (and with it maybe something else) on turn one.
Yet as opposed to Skyshroud Ranger you can also put it on the field on your opponent's turn (although keep in mind not on turn one, only once it has lost summoning sickness).
She also has some potetial for tribal use, considering that she's a Snake Shaman.
Sachi has probably the best synergy with her.

Crazy in the 8 post strategy. This makes for 2 ancient stirrings to go off on second turn, allowing 2 cloudposts to hit as well. All that while still having great deck management in all the right colors (good old Timmy green). Fun stuff.

Tapping this to drop a forest and a surprise Fog is always fun.

This + Tideforce Elemental + Island = Landfall shenanigans.

Need a land here!

Oh look I just put a Sejiri Steppe into play in response to your removal spell.

I got this card t1 in a game of momir basic. It was pretty much gg right there

Surprise your opponent with an instant Bojuka Bog :)

I love this little snake lady! She belongs in a good BUG deck. Gives you a cheap way to drop all of that extra land you are drawing.

Fun with Dryad Arbor!

I have found a new card to include in my pauper games.

Mega-ramp, here I come.

This snake has the best rack on any Magic card I've seen.

THis + Freed from the real + cloudstone Curio.

Enjoy Infinite landfall. I suggest my favorite landfall card, Hedron Crab for infinite mill.

throw in Lotus Cobra for infinite mana

I like this with City of Traitors able to be in play with less worry about land drops. Of course, after a while it does little more than let you tap out your scout to keep out your functional equivalent of Temple of the False God in play. Too bad it doesn't aid in Scorched Ruins or Lotus Vale shenanigans.

However, I do see how Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower and Urza's Power Plant could be a complete set in no time with a little snake-scout help.

Aid in more Blinkmoth Nexus / Inkmoth Nexus or Mishra's Factory action.

Green is the color to play with this in, for sure. I see how one would like to drop Dryad Arbor out with Llanowar Reborn to graft it into bear-size.

Meloku the Clouded Mirror? Freed from the Real?

And now for something completely different.

Alliteration is poetry based on sound, not written letters (like most poetry). It puts words with the same initial consonant sound in stressed syllables together in lines. So this means:

-"Snake Shaman" is not alliteration. S and Sh are different consonant sounds.
-"Old English Art" is alliteration. The consonant sound is the void sound, no consonant.
-"Added Alliterative Appeal" is NOT alliteration. the initial syllables of "alliterative" and "appeal" are unstressed! The stress pattern is "Added Alliterative Appeal", which gives those words a strong "L" and "P" sound. It looks like alliteration, but it doesn't sound like it.

A Snake Shaman Scout of the Sakura-Tribe searched the forests, seeing every leaf and stem,
Allowing her to bond with land at lightning speed, losing no tempo against the kami's looming force.

This thing beats the pants off of firebrand ranger