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Ominous Roost

Enchantment2 generic manaBlue mana

Casting from the graveyard is normally a one-way transaction: you spend the yard down and get a spell for it, nothing more. This enchantment attaches a bonus to that act, so every spell recast from below the battlefield also mints a flier. The trigger is deliberately agnostic about what you cast, only that it originated in the graveyard, so any flashback card, any escape spell, any effect that recurs a spell from the yard feeds it without demanding a specific keyword. The Birds are where the design turns aggressive. They fly and they can block only other fliers, which means they contribute nothing on the ground defensively but everything on the attack: an evasive clock that widens each time you loop a spell. This looks like a value engine and plays like an air raid, chipping one, then two, then three a turn while the graveyard keeps restocking the sky. The token on entry is a hedge against an empty yard, keeping the card from stranding dead in hand before the recursion comes online. It wears its condition without disguise: pair it with a shell that casts spells twice as a matter of course and it snowballs into a genuine threat; drop it into one that never fills a graveyard and it makes one Bird and quits. That transparency about its own ceiling, no floor propped up by hidden upside, is what keeps the build-around fair.

Ominous Roost (dbl)
DBL · #65uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.45
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying and "This token can block only creatures with flying."
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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