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Cynette, Jelly Drover

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard3 generic manaBlue mana

A keyword anthem that ships with the start of its own air force. Most flying anthems (Favorable Winds and its kin) assume you have already committed to the sky; the buff is a payoff you build toward. This one arrives already handing you a 1/1 flyer, so the +1/+1 to your creatures with flying has something to buff the instant she lands. The two-for-one shape is where the design gets clever: the enter trigger seeds a body, and the dies trigger replaces it, so trading her away or losing her to a wipe still leaves a Jellyfish behind. That death token does not inherit the anthem (the +1/+1 is a static ability that only functions while she is on the battlefield, and she is gone by the time the token resolves), so the last Jellyfish is a plain 1/1 unless another anthem is holding the air up. Which points to how the buff should be built: not around the legend herself, who can only hold the battlefield one at a time, but around redundancy in the +1/+1. Stack a second flying anthem and each of her flyers reads as a 3/3, and the death token, kept a 2/2 by the surviving anthem, stops being a consolation prize. She hits play small and stays small on her own; the payoff sits in the tokens, with the anthem clause doing the arithmetic once the sky fills up.

Cynette, Jelly Drover (j25)
J25 · #35uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.36
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When Cynette enters or dies, create a 1/1 blue Jellyfish creature token with flying. Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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