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Starling, Aerial Ally

Legendary Creature — Human Hero4 generic manaWhite mana

Evasion-granting on a body has always been the poor cousin of trample-enabling or menace, because giving one creature flying for a turn is a narrow effect that lives and dies on the board it lands into. What this design does is fold that grant into a legend that already flies, so the enters trigger reads less as a combat trick and more as a two-body evasive package delivered at once: land it opposite a creature that hits harder than a 3/4, and the beefier attacker inherits the sky for a turn. The trigger targets another creature you control, so it can never point at itself, and it needs another creature in play to have anywhere to go, keeping the effect a tempo swing rather than a standing threat. The ceiling is the alpha-strike turn, where a wide ground stall suddenly has a lane; the floor is a fairly costed flier that happened to nudge one attacker over a blocker. It is a modest card built for a specific job, lifting a stalled board into the air the moment it lands, and it asks the deck around it to have a threat worth flying, not just a threat.

Starling, Aerial Ally (msc)
MSC · #778common
Pricing
Normal: $0.03
Foil: $0.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When Starling enters, another target creature you control gains flying until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

2 sets
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