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Glimmerbell

Creature — Elemental Jellyfish1 generic manaBlue mana

A 1/3 flyer that can stand up again after it swings is a real body: block the turn you attacked, so long as you hold two mana for the untap. But the self-untap ability reads like an engine and mostly isn't one, and the seam that trips up build-arounds is which direction the value flows. Untapping itself does nothing on its own account; the power of 1 caps the offense on purpose, and the repeated 1 generic manaBlue mana taxes every activation so no loop comes free. What the jellyfish actually wants is a reason to tap. Hand it an aura or equipment that grants a tap ability, or park it beside any effect that pays out when a creature becomes tapped, and the untap clause turns into a resetter: fire the tap payoff, spend 1 generic manaBlue mana to straighten back up, repeat every turn without ever spending the body itself. The untap is the second half of a two-part machine whose first half lives on another card. Absent that partner, this is a serviceable defensive flyer with a mana sink stapled on, and the mana sink is doing the least interesting work available to it. The ceiling belongs entirely to whatever tap-triggered payoff you point it at; Glimmerbell supplies only the resilience to keep pulling the trigger.

Glimmerbell (j25)
J25 · #315common
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Normal: $0.17
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying 1 generic manaBlue mana: Untap this creature.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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