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Ethereal Valkyrie

Creature — Spirit Angel4 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana

The foretell mechanic was built to smooth out mana across turns: pay a chunk of a spell's cost early, cast it later at a discount, and turn a dead draw step into a stored play. This card weaponizes that verb rather than just using it. Every enter-or-attack trigger loots one card deeper and then converts something in hand into a discounted, face-down time bomb waiting on the next turn's mana. The loop is what makes it more than a flying beater: draw fills the hand, foretell empties it at a two-mana rebate, and because the exiled card is castable even after the Valkyrie dies, the value survives removal. That last clause is the load-bearing one. Most repeatable card-advantage engines fold the moment the engine leaves the battlefield; here the exiled cards are already banked and payable regardless of what happens to the creature, so a chump-block or a kill spell only stops the next iteration, not the ones already stored. The tension it resolves is that raw looting (draw plus discard) is symmetric card neutrality; folding foretell into the discard half turns the "toss" into deferred casting, so the filtering costs you nothing in the long run. It is a design that took a set mechanic meant to help you sequence around a mana curve and rebuilt it into an attrition engine, one that rewards a hand full of expensive spells rather than punishing it.

Ethereal Valkyrie (khc)
KHC · #16rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.50
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down. It becomes foretold. Its foretell cost is its mana cost reduced by 2 generic mana. (On a later turn, you may cast it for its foretell cost, even if this creature has left the battlefield.)
Legalities

Format Status

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