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Flitterstep Eidolon

Enchantment Creature — Spirit1 generic manaBlue mana

Bestow exists to solve the oldest problem in aura design, the two-for-one when removal answers the creature you enchanted, and the way this Spirit reads is a clean case study in what that solution buys and what it costs. As a 1/1 for two mana, it sneaks in for a single point, trivial on its own. The math gets interesting when you pay the bestow cost to graft it onto a creature already worth attacking with: the host gets +1/+1 and, more to the point, becomes unconditionally unblockable, converting a midsized beater into a clock no blocker can interrupt. The tension lives in the price. Six mana for evasion rather than raw stats is steep, which is why the aura mode plays as a finisher enabler rather than a tempo swing. What keeps it from being a conventional liability is the bestow safety net: if the host dies, the eidolon detaches and stays on the battlefield as a 1/1 rather than going to the graveyard, so removal on the host costs the opponent a card and still leaves you with a body. That body cannot reattach from play (bestow is a one-way trip; once it becomes a creature it stays one until recast), but it does mean the enchantment half never strands you down a card the way a plain aura does. A modest effect wrapped around a structurally tidy answer to why auras have always been a gamble.

Flitterstep Eidolon (bng)
BNG · #40uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

Bestow 5 generic manaBlue mana (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.) This creature can't be blocked. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and can't be blocked.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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