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Ghost-Lit Drifter

Creature — Spirit2 generic manaBlue mana

Evasion usually rides on the creature that carries it; this one exists to hand it out instead. The 2/2 flying body is functional but forgettable, a fair blue flier that trades in the air with anything its size. The interest lives in the two ways it lifts other creatures off the ground. The repeatable activation is a slow drip, a mana sink that grinds a stalled board into a race by pushing one attacker over the top each turn. The channel mode is the payoff: rather than cast the card, you pitch it from hand for a variable cost and grant flying to a whole board of grounded creatures at once, converting a stalled go-wide start into a lethal alpha strike at instant speed. That split is the design. Draw it early and you have a fair flier and a clock; draw it late, after the ground has jammed up, and you have an evasion-granting finisher you never wanted to spend a full turn casting. Channel is built to keep a card alive in phases where it would otherwise rot in hand, and this one aims the idea squarely at the oldest problem in aggressive ground decks: getting the last points through a blocking wall that has finally caught up to your width. It asks nothing of the deck around it beyond bodies worth pointing skyward.

Ghost-Lit Drifter (j21)
J21 · #196uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.05
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying 2 generic manaBlue mana: Another target creature gains flying until end of turn. Channel — X generic manaBlue mana, Discard this card: X target creatures gain flying until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
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