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Knightfisher

Creature — Bird Knight3 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The trigger's fine print is doing quiet, deliberate work: it wants another nontoken Bird, not any creature and not the Fish tokens it spawns, which means the engine only pays out when you keep feeding it real cards. That single restriction (nontoken, another) turns a value payoff into a deckbuilding tax. You have to actually assemble a Bird board rather than loop the tokens back into themselves, and the Fish it makes are pointedly not Birds, so they cannot re-trigger the ability. What you get for that discipline is a token engine that widens two bodies at a time: every Bird that lands brings a chump-blocking, go-wide Fish along with it, and the 4/5 flying body means the card threatens on its own even when the trigger stays dormant. Blue has run plenty of "creature enters, make a token" payoffs, most of them colorless value cards happy to fire off anything on the board; this one commits hard to a tribe and rewards you for staying on-type. The design is less about raw rate than about texture: it asks whether your deck is Bird-dense enough to justify the Fish-less turns you might spend when no Bird arrives, and whether the payoff for keeping that density is worth building around at all.

Knightfisher (blb)
BLB · #55uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever another nontoken Bird you control enters, create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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