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Mentor of Evos Isle

Creature — Bird Wizard2 generic manaBlue mana

Evasion is usually a property of a body: buff a creature and the flying evaporates the moment that creature leaves the battlefield. This Bird Wizard writes the trait onto the card itself instead. When it enters, a creature card in your hand gains flying permanently, and that grant follows the card through every zone: discard it, bounce it, exile and recast it, draw it again next turn, and it is still flying whenever you finally put it on the battlefield. The reframe is from "one flier this turn" to "a ground threat that will always come down evasive, however many times you have to find it." Because the Bird itself is a 2/1 whose enter trigger picks a single card, the card leans entirely on the durability of what it grants rather than on anything it accomplishes on arrival; it wants a specific recurring threat you plan to cast, recur, or recover more than once. It is also a clean demonstration of why a keyword like this only exists off paper. A printed token or aura that added flying would fall away the instant its target left play, and no physical marker can ride a card from hand to graveyard to exile and back. Rewriting a card's properties in place, independent of the object that briefly represents it on the battlefield, is something only a digital rules engine can track, and this modest flier is one of the tidiest illustrations of that reach.

Mentor of Evos Isle (j21)
J21 · #11common
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, choose a creature card in your hand. It perpetually gains flying.
Legalities

Format Status

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