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Gale Swooper

Creature — Griffin3 generic manaWhite mana

The evasion-granting ETB is the whole reason this Griffin costs four mana instead of three. A plain 3/2 flyer would sit at the floor of white's common-rarity fliers; the enters trigger reframes it as a tempo enabler that hands flying to a ground creature for a single attack step. The interesting wrinkle is who benefits: point the trigger at a large, stalled beater and the four-mana body becomes a way to force through a chunk of damage the opponent could not have blocked a moment earlier. It rewards a deck that already wants to attack rather than one hunting for a durable engine, because the flying it grants lasts one turn and no longer. That narrow window is the constraint holding the card in check: it cannot bank evasion for later, cannot chain the effect across combats, and a 3/2 is fragile enough that trading it away carries a real cost. What it offers is a burst of reach that repeats only through blink effects and is otherwise a one-shot: the kind of glue that props up a white aggressive shell without ever headlining it.

Gale Swooper (m21)
M21 · #20common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, target creature gains flying until end of turn.
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
N/A
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