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Burdened Aerialist

Creature — Human Pirate2 generic manaBlue mana

Here the Treasure is not just ramp: it's the trigger. The body enters and hands you an artifact, and the second ability turns any sacrifice of a token into evasion, so the same Treasure that fixes your mana or fuels a spell also pays for a swing over the top of the ground. That coupling is the whole design idea. On its own the card is a fragile 3/1 whose flying lasts only as long as you keep sacrificing tokens, but any deck already sacrificing tokens for other reasons (an aristocrats engine, an artifact-matters shell, a spellslinger deck cashing in Clues or Treasures) gets the flying rider for free on lines it was going to make anyway. Note the ability keys off sacrificing tokens broadly, not Treasures specifically, so Clues, Blood, Food, and creature tokens from a sacrifice outlet all switch on the evasion. The tension the card resolves is a familiar one for blue beaters: how do you make an evasive threat that isn't priced like an evasive threat? The answer is to make the evasion conditional on a resource you're spending elsewhere, so the flying is a reward for engine activity rather than a static keyword you paid for up front. It rewards a board built to sacrifice, and does nothing for a deck that isn't.

Burdened Aerialist (j21)
J21 · #173common
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $0.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "Tap, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever you sacrifice a token, this creature gains flying until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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