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Esperzoa

Artifact Creature — Jellyfish2 generic manaBlue mana

A 4/3 flyer for three mana is a genuinely aggressive rate in blue, and the mandatory upkeep bounce is what the body is paying for it. But the design is built to be exploited rather than tolerated: the trigger says return an artifact you control, so a single cheap enters-the-battlefield artifact reloads on demand every turn. The artifacts worth feeding it are the ones whose value is front-loaded into an ETB and stays on the battlefield: a manifold mana rock, a creature whose enter trigger you want again, anything that pays you for re-entering the battlefield rather than for sacrificing itself. That last distinction is where the loop earns its limits. One-shot artifacts that immolate themselves as a cost are exactly the wrong partners; they are already gone before the upkeep trigger resolves, with nothing left to return. So the engine wants permanents that linger and reward replay, fed by a clock that closes games while you assemble them. The constraint that keeps it honest is the word "an": if it is the only artifact you control, it bounces itself, leaving you with no flyer and a card back in hand. So it asks for a board that always holds a cheaper artifact to feed it, which is the kind of artifact-dense shell where its body matters least and its trigger most. It belongs to the small lineage of creatures whose downside reads as the draft of a combo loop waiting for the right partner.

Esperzoa (2xm)
2XM · #49uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.
Legalities

Format Status

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