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Sinister Concierge

Creature — Human Wizard1 generic manaBlue mana

Suspend is a mechanic that usually lives on the card in your hand: you pay a cheaper cost up front and wait out the time counters. Here it works in reverse, as a death trigger that reaches sideways. When this dies, you can send it into exile with three counters and drag a creature along with it, temporarily deleting the best thing across the table for three of its owner's upkeeps. Both come back eventually (yours as a suspended spell you recast for free, theirs as a suspended creature, and both with haste), but three turns is a long time to be down a threat, and the tempo swing is doing the work a hard removal spell can't do at this price: it also replaces itself. The clever part is that suspend hands the exiled creature back to its owner rather than to you, so this is a delay, not a theft; you are buying time, not permanent card advantage. That distinction is what keeps a two-mana body from reading as a two-mana one-sided removal spell. It rewards decks that can capitalize on a three-turn window (aggression, a combo you're assembling, or simply another removal spell queued up for when the creature returns) and it turns the graveyard, normally where a fragile 2/1 goes to be forgotten, into the launch point for its most disruptive turn.

Sinister Concierge (ncc)
NCC · #131rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.66
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature dies, you may exile it and put three time counters on it. If you do, exile up to one target creature and put three time counters on it. Each card exiled this way that doesn't have suspend gains suspend. (For each card with suspend, its owner removes a time counter from it at the beginning of their upkeep. When the last is removed, they may cast it without paying its mana cost. Those creature spells have haste.)
Legalities

Format Status

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