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Aven Interrupter

Creature — Bird Rogue1 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

White never got the raw counterspell, so its answers to the stack have always taken oblique shapes: a Dawn Charm redirection, a Silence, a Rebuff the Wicked. This one takes the shape further than most by refusing to actually deny the spell. The exile-and-plot clause pulls the target off the stack and hands it back to its caster to recast on a later turn, so the trade is pure tempo: three mana at flash speed buys a full turn cycle while a 2/2 flier stays behind to pressure the board. The wrinkle is that the two halves of the card talk to each other. Because the plotted spell is now cast from exile, the second ability taxes it 2 generic mana as long as the Bird sits on the battlefield. So "recast for free" is a trap the caster walks into: the spell you gave back is not free, it is late and taxed, and killing the Interrupter to dodge that tax means spending removal you would rather aim elsewhere. That second ability is the quieter menace anyway, a standing surcharge on every graveyard-cast and exile-cast spell an opponent reaches for, which is precisely where flashback, escape, foretell, adventure, and the growing pile of cast-from-exile value all live. Two distinct flavors of interaction, a soft counter and a recursion tax, out of one three-mana body that ambushes at instant speed.

Aven Interrupter (pwcs)
PWCS · #2024-08rare
Pricing
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Foil: $5.98
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash Flying When this creature enters, exile target spell. It becomes plotted. (Its owner may cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost.) Spells your opponents cast from graveyards or from exile cost 2 generic mana more to cast.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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