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Frost Trickster

Creature — Bird Wizard2 generic manaBlue mana

Man-o'-War taught blue that a body plus a tempo swing on entry is the shape that keeps a bounce-adjacent creature honest, and this is that lesson rebuilt around a tap-down instead of a bounce. Where the classic bounce buys a full turn but hands the card back, freezing a creature strands a blocker or attacker without returning it to hand: you get the aggression clock, but you don't reset their card advantage or refund their sunk mana. The flying gives the effect a second dimension, because the pressure you apply in the air isn't the same pressure you're spending the enters trigger to buy on the ground; the modest 2/2 does more work than its numbers imply once the opponent's best ground defender is turned sideways. Two constraints keep the design from spiraling. The tap is restricted to an opposing creature, which forecloses the self-untap loops that make other tap effects into engines, and it fires only on entry, so there's no repeatable lock, just a single well-timed removal of a defender: tapped now, and held down through the next untap step it would otherwise get. It reads as filler right up until you're the one facing a flyer with your best blocker frozen and your untap step already spent for nothing.

Frost Trickster (plst)
PLST · #STX-43common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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