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Soaring Show-Off

Creature — Bird Warrior2 generic manaBlue mana

The symmetry is the joke and the point. Where most card-draw effects guard the advantage jealously, this one hands a fresh card to the opponent every time it enters, a design that finds its upside precisely in a wash. The trick is that "everyone draws" is only symmetric on paper: the body is a 2/2 flying clock that demands an answer, and the draw refuels whoever is better positioned to use it. In a shell packed with cheap reactive spells, you convert the free card into a counter or a removal spell while the opponent's gift sits stranded in a hand they cannot deploy fast enough. The board state you want is one you engineer: an empty hand you are eager to refill against a hand already glutted, or a graveyard you can leverage that the opponent's extra cards do nothing to touch. Blink and recursion shells push the idea further, since the trigger keys off entering the battlefield: return the bird and it fires again, each new arrival a fresh symmetric draw that an asymmetric deck bends in its favor. A 2/2 flyer that cantrips for the whole table is a strange thing to actively want, but the distance between "drawing my opponent cards" and "drawing my opponent cards I am equipped to punish" is exactly the gap the design invites you to open.

Soaring Show-Off (bbd)
BBD · #40common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.50
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, each player draws a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
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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