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Ithilien Kingfisher

Creature — Bird2 generic manaBlue mana

A 2/1 flyer for 2 generic manaBlue mana is a fragile body by design, and the death trigger is what turns that fragility into a feature. The card is built to trade: it blocks or attacks into something that kills it, and the death draw makes the exchange card-neutral instead of a loss. That reframes every combat math question. An opponent has to decide whether killing a 2/1 is worth handing you a card, and a defending player can chump-block with it and still refill. Removal aimed at it becomes a hedge rather than a clean answer, since even a burn spell or an edict cashes out into a new card for the controller. The evasion matters too: flying keeps it from getting stonewalled on the ground, so it either connects for two or forces a trade you were already happy to make. This is the durable, low-rarity shape of value that blue has leaned on for a long time, a creature whose replacement is baked in so that losing it never sets you back. Nothing about it demands a build-around; it slots into any deck that wants a cheap evasive body and would rather not spend a real card to trade for one.

Ithilien Kingfisher (ltr)
LTR · #509common
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature dies, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
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