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Kindlespark Duo

Creature — Lizard Otter2 generic manaRed mana

A pinger whose leash is the length of your spell chain. Tapping to burn a face is old technology, going back to the earliest prowess-adjacent designs, but the untap clause here changes what the tap is worth: each noncreature spell you cast in a turn refunds the activation, and because the trigger fires on cast rather than resolution, it pays out even when the spell gets countered. That folds the card into a spells-matter shell rather than a beatdown one, where the 1/3 body is less about pressure and more about surviving to keep the engine online: it blocks small aggressors comfortably and asks only that you keep casting to keep pinging. The reach on the ability is deliberately narrow (opponents only, never creatures), so it does not double as removal the way a flexible pinger would; the payoff is inevitability against a life total, not board control. Its real appeal is how it scales with something a low-curve spellslinger deck is already doing, converting a resource you spend anyway (a turn's worth of instants and sorceries) into free reach. The ceiling depends entirely on how many spells a turn can support, which keeps a card that reads as unassuming honest: the engine is only as fast as the deck feeding it.

Kindlespark Duo (blb)
BLB · #142common
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: This creature deals 1 damage to target opponent. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, untap this creature.
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
Legal
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