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Fylamarid

Creature — Squid Beast1 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

A flyer that hunts other flyers, built almost entirely around a single color word. The activated ability paints a target creature blue, which feeds directly into the evasion clause: anything turned blue can no longer block this squid, so a defender that was supposed to trade in the air gets neutered at instant speed for one mana. That is the whole engine, and it is a tidy one. The 1/3 body is a deliberate brake on the design: it survives a lot of incidental damage and pings, but it threatens almost nothing alone, which forces a fresh mana investment every combat just to push a single point of evasive damage through. The color-changing line also reaches sideways into other interactions, since "becomes blue until end of turn" can flip a creature into range of color-specific removal. As a piece of Tempest-era design it reads as an experiment in how much you can wring out of one keyword and one parameter: evasion, defensive disruption, and combat math all routed through the same blue-vs-blue lever, on a creature whose only job is to make the air a worse place to be for everyone else playing the color.

Fylamarid (tmp)
TMP · #64uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying This creature can't be blocked by blue creatures. Blue mana: Target creature becomes blue until end of turn.
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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