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Didact Echo

Creature — Spirit Cleric4 generic manaBlue mana

The cantrip body is the constant here; the flying is the variable you have to earn. Draw-a-card-on-enter has been blue's baseline value staple for as long as the color has existed, and a 3/2 that replaces itself is honest filler on that count alone. What the design layers on is a graveyard threshold that flips the same creature from a ground-stuck body into an evasive clock once four permanent cards have piled into your yard. It is a conditional keyword rather than a stapled one: the flying comes and goes with the state of the graveyard, so a board wipe that refills your yard or a self-mill turn can switch it on, and a graveyard hate spell can switch it back off. That toggle is what separates it from the older run of blue value bodies that either flew or did not from the moment they resolved. The descend mechanic ties the reward to a deck already invested in filling its graveyard, which means the flying is close to free in the shells built to want it and close to irrelevant everywhere else. As a piece of construction it is deliberately backloaded: the card pays you immediately for the cantrip and then pays you again, later, if the game goes the way its home deck wants it to.

Didact Echo (lci)
LCI · #53common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.11
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, draw a card. Descend 4 — This creature has flying as long as there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

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