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Skyway Robber

Creature — Bird Rogue3 generic manaBlue mana

The escape ability here isn't just a recursion clause: it rewrites what the graveyard is worth. Exiling five cards to bring the Bird back stitches those five cards' fate to a combat trigger, because the creature only cashes in the artifacts, instants, and sorceries among the cards it took with it, and only when it connects. That turns the graveyard from a resource pile into a magazine to be loaded before the strike. Escape's fuel and its payoff are drawn from the same well: you feed it a graveyard, and the reward is casting the artifacts, instants, and sorceries you already spent, free, on the swing. The five-card exile cost is steep enough to keep this from being a low-effort loop, but a flying 3/3 that dodges most ground blockers is a reliable enough delivery vehicle that the free-spell trigger fires more often than the body suggests. This is closer in spirit to the "cast from exile" free-spell payoffs than to a straight reanimator: the free spells are one-shot casts, but a well-stocked exile pile means each connection is a free artifact, instant, or sorcery spell chosen from whatever the Bird was carrying. The whole card lives on that combat step, and building around it means curating a graveyard you want to spend rather than one you want to preserve.

Skyway Robber (ncc)
NCC · #31rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Escape—3 generic manaBlue mana, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) This creature escapes with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell from among cards exiled with this creature without paying its mana cost."
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
N/A
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