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Glidedive Duo

Creature — Bat Lizard4 generic manaBlack mana

A four-life swing stapled to an evasive body: each opponent loses two life, you gain two, and a 3/3 flyer stays on the table to keep applying pressure. The template is one of black's oldest, the enters-the-battlefield drain, and this take asks nothing of the graveyard, no sacrifice fodder, no board state to convert. The trade is speed for reliability. At five mana this is a slow way to move four points, but the number scales with opponents in a way single-target effects do not: each opponent loses two while your gain stays fixed at two, so a wider table pays more. That asymmetry is why the card is built this way. The flying keyword matters more than the small body suggests, because it turns the four-life entry into a down payment on a clock rather than a one-shot nudge to a life total; the drain buys the tempo, and the evasion collects on it. Nothing here is subtle, and nothing needs to be. It is a drain effect built to close games in the air over several turns rather than crack them open in one, and it earns its keep by doing two jobs at once, life-swing and pressure, that black usually has to split across two cards.

Glidedive Duo (blb)
BLB · #96common
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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