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Majestic Heliopterus

Creature — Dinosaur3 generic manaWhite mana

The flying-granter is an old white idea, but wiring it onto a flying body that keeps its own evasion while sharing it produces something tighter than the keyword usually gets. The trigger fires on attack and lasts until end of turn, so the payoff arrives in a single combat step and only if the timing lines up: attackers are declared all at once, which means the other Dinosaur has to swing alongside this one to be airborne when blockers are assigned. There is no waiting to attack after the trigger resolves; the redirect and the attack are the same declaration. The reward for getting there is that both creatures fly. This 2/2 does not surrender its own evasion to lend it, so a ground-bound Dinosaur and its escort both go over the top, and a defender built to gum up the ground can stop neither (though a flyer or a creature with reach still can). The small body means the flyer itself rarely ends games; the value is in routing flight to the bruiser that actually threatens the life total, pulling a stalled attacker out of the ground stall for a turn. As tribal payoffs go it is modest: a glue piece for a Dinosaur board rather than a centerpiece, a per-turn evasion valve rather than a static anthem to build around. Its ceiling is capped by needing a second, larger Dinosaur worth pushing through, but when that creature exists the redirect asks nothing more than a coordinated swing.

Majestic Heliopterus (rix)
RIX · #13uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.32
Foil: $1.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, another target Dinosaur you control gains flying until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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