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Aminatou, the Fateshifter

Legendary Planeswalker — AminatouWhite manaBlue manaBlack mana

The plus ability draws and then reburies a card, which is not net advantage: it is a delivery system, feeding your next draw exactly what a topdeck-dependent line needs, arming a miracle cost, or stashing a card you want to hold in reserve. The minus-one is the real engine, a remarkably clean blink template stapled to loyalty: exile another permanent you own and return it under your control, resetting enter-the-battlefield triggers, shedding counters, dropping auras. It goes on the stack like any loyalty ability, so a patient opponent can respond by removing the target before it flickers, but on your own turn, unmolested, it becomes a repeatable value loop with any permanent that pays you for arriving. The ultimate is pure Vorthos chaos, a wheel of everyone's board shunted one seat over, but you rarely need to reach it; the blink defines how the card plays. What makes this a distinct building block is where it puts flicker. Flicker had always been a spell you cast, a moment of value spent from the hand. Here it becomes a resource that accrues on the battlefield, refreshed each turn from a permanent that survives sweepers and sticks around between activations. That shift, from flicker-as-instant to flicker-as-standing-engine, is the design idea worth building a deck around, and it is why Aminatou reads less like a walker and more like an infrastructure piece for anything that wants to reuse its own permanents.

Aminatou, the Fateshifter (2x2)
2X2 · #169mythic
Pricing
Normal: $2.57
Foil: $4.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

+1: Draw a card, then put a card from your hand on top of your library. −1: Exile another target permanent you own, then return it to the battlefield under your control. −6: Choose left or right. Each player gains control of all nonland permanents other than Aminatou controlled by the next player in the chosen direction. Aminatou, the Fateshifter can be your commander.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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