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Abuelo, Ancestral Echo

Legendary Creature — Spirit1 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana

The activated ability is a blink stapled to a body, and the way it's built matters more than the flicker itself. Most repeatable flicker effects live on high-cost engines or asymmetric spells; here it's a three-mana flier that can protect and re-trigger enter-the-battlefield value on demand, at instant speed, targeting your own creatures or artifacts. That instant-speed window is the whole strategic axis: with the exile and return both keyed to the stack, you can respond to a removal spell already targeting your creature by exiling it, watch the removal fizzle for lack of a legal target, and get the permanent back at the beginning of the next end step. It doubles as a way to dodge a sweeper, to reset an artifact whose ability you'd like to re-trigger, or to re-fire a valuable enters-the-battlefield trigger at the moment it matters most. The return-at-end-step clause is what pays for the repeatability: because the permanent comes back only at end step, the ability can't loop into infinite enter-the-battlefield value the way a permanent-return effect would, and it can't sneak a summoning-sick creature into an attack. Ward keeps the flier itself irritating to remove, so the engine stays online. It sits in a line of white-blue value pieces built around flicker (Restoration Angel and Charming Prince gave you one shot; Roon of the Hidden Realm offered repeatable flicker with a return-at-end-step catch of its own), but a defended, instant-speed body is the specific wrinkle that separates it from that line.

Abuelo, Ancestral Echo (plci)
PLCI · #219srare
Pricing
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Foil: $0.82
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, ward 2 generic mana 1 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana: Exile another target creature or artifact you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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