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Cloudchaser Eagle

Creature — Bird3 generic manaWhite mana

The design template for white enchantment removal stapled to a body: a flier that brings its answer with it, and the trade-off is the whole point. You pay four mana for a 2/2 and a Disenchant-for-enchantments on a stick, accepting a worse rate on both halves in exchange for never holding a dead removal spell in your opening hand. The catch is the targeting: the trigger is mandatory, so it always wants an enchantment to destroy. If your opponent has one, you have removed a problem and left a clock behind; if they do not but you do, the bird is forced to point at your own enchantment, which is a real cost in a deck that runs them. The enters-trigger does the work here, not an activated ability, so the removal is locked to the moment the bird resolves; there is no holding it up at instant speed, and rebuying it means getting the bird to enter again. You get one shot, when the bird lands. It is a clean, honest piece of design from an era that was still working out how much a creature should pay to carry a spell on its back, and the answer it settled on (a full mana premium and a turn of sorcery-speed commitment) reads as conservative now, which is exactly why the shape has aged so well. Wizards has reprinted the same logic under a dozen names since: bodies that fold a utility spell into an attacker so the card is never a blank.

Cloudchaser Eagle (wc98)
WC98 · #bs15common
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, destroy target enchantment.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

3 sets
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