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Stinging Lionfish

Enchantment Creature — Fish1 generic manaBlue mana

The reward here lives entirely on your opponents' turns, which is the tell for how this was built: as a creature that pays a controlling deck for doing what it already wants to do. The trigger fires on your first spell during each opponent's turn, so the price of admission is holding up instant-speed action every turn cycle, and the payoff is a tap or untap on any nonland permanent. That means untapping a mana source to slip in a second spell, tapping down an attacker before combat resolves against you, or tapping a would-be blocker during the opponent's turn so it stays down through your next attack step. The constraint is precise and doing real work: once per opponent's turn, on the first spell only, and never on your own turn. That ceiling is what keeps a two-mana body from warping combat and mana the way a freely repeatable instant-speed tapper otherwise would. And because Fish is only half the type line, the enchantment type earns its keep too: it feeds constellation and other enchantment-matters triggers while the tap effect quietly reads as a subclause on the reactive game you were going to play anyway. This is a small, pointed piece of design aimed squarely at the flash-heavy, hold-up end of the color pie, a creature that wants a full grip and an untapped blue source at all times.

Stinging Lionfish (j22)
J22 · #352uncommon
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Normal: $0.19
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, you may tap or untap target nonland permanent.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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