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Ghostway

Instant2 generic manaWhite mana

Most blink effects flicker one creature at a time and charge you a card and a mana for each enters-the-battlefield trigger; this exiles your whole board in a single instant-speed gesture, with the twist that everything returns on a delayed trigger at the next end step rather than snapping back immediately, and that delay reframes what the card is for. The defensive read is obvious: in response to a wrath, a targeted removal pile, or an alpha strike, you blink everything out of the kill zone and let it slide back once the danger passes. The offensive read is the more interesting payload, because returning a wide board re-triggers every enters-the-battlefield ability you control at once. A Soul Warden gaining life off each return, a Wall of Omens refilling your hand, a Blade Splicer making another Golem: each fires again on the way back, and that re-entry surge is the value. Crucially, the exile is a leave, not a death, so this never feeds Blood Artist or other sacrifice payoffs; the creatures vanish and reappear without ever touching the graveyard. The end-step return is also the cost: your creatures stay gone until the turn winds down, so you cannot blink mid-combat to dodge damage and still block, and any token caught in the exile window evaporates permanently. The single-target removal dodge is incidental; this was built to convert a board full of enter triggers into a reusable, instant-speed value detonation.

Ghostway (gpt)
GPT · #6rare
Pricing
Normal: $4.71
Foil: $17.70
Oracle Text

Rules text

Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
N/A
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
Printings elsewhere

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