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Puppeteer Clique

Creature — Faerie Wizard3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Reanimation that bills its target twice. The enters trigger steals a creature from an opponent's graveyard with haste, but the steal is on loan: it exiles at your next end step, so the design is built as a tempo swing rather than the permanent body most black reanimation hands you. That temporary-theft restriction buys the recursion. Persist fires the trigger again when the Faerie dies with no -1/-1 counter on it, coming back smaller, and the returning 2/1 runs the steal a second time, pulling another dead creature onto your side before either copy is spent. The interaction worth knowing is the loop: erase the -1/-1 counter persist leaves behind (a +1/+1 counter cancels it cleanly, restoring a body that died with no counters on it) and persist resets, so a recurring sacrifice engine turns each death into one more opposing creature ripped onto your side with haste. The flying body keeps those borrowed threats relevant on offense, but the recursion is the real axis: a graveyard-punishing machine that charges opponents for the same creature across two lives of a 3/2 that returns diminished, not one.

Puppeteer Clique (ncc)
NCC · #257rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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