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Glimmerpoint Stag

Creature — Elk2 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

Most flicker creatures point the blink inward: reset your own permanent, retrigger an enter-the-battlefield effect, dodge removal in response. This one targets another permanent, which makes it cut both ways. Pointed at your own board it is a clunky reuse engine, the sort of thing a dedicated blink shell already does better. Pointed across the table it becomes soft disruption: exile an opponent's best creature and it returns at the next end step, but only after sitting out a combat or a blocking window; exile a token and it never comes back; exile an Aura-laden or counter-stacked permanent and it returns stripped of everything that was riding on it. The return clause is the honest cost, since the card always comes back: against a single threat this buys a tempo swing, not a kill. That delay is a single delayed trigger created when the enter ability resolves, and it sets up timing the card cannot be cheated out of: once the exile ability is on the stack, removing the Stag in response no longer strands the permanent, and a destroy effect aimed at the empty slot finds nothing, because the original card is sitting in exile rather than on the battlefield. The vigilance and the 3/3 body give a four-drop the attacker-defender doubling white likes, swinging while holding a blocker. But the trigger is the reason to run it: a recurring tempo lever that punishes anything fragile while it is briefly gone.

Glimmerpoint Stag (som)
SOM · #9uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $1.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance When this creature enters, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its 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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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