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Stratus Dancer

Creature — Djinn Monk1 generic manaBlue mana

A flash counterspell announces itself the moment you leave two mana untapped: the opponent reads the open window and simply waits you out. This design solves that problem by burying the permission inside a body. What sits across the table is an anonymous morph, a nondescript facedown creature no different from any other, until the instant or sorcery you meant to stop is already on the stack. Megamorph converts the reveal into the answer: pay the flip cost, turn it up, and the trigger counters the spell in flight, leaving a 3/2 flier behind once the mask comes off. The restraint here is narrow scope: it answers only instants and sorceries, never a permanent, and the permission is welded to the flip rather than held in reserve, so a turn with nothing worth stopping just leaves you a plain 2/2 owed its flip cost. The real value is the information gap. Every relevant spell the opponent casts has to respect a hard counter that may or may not be waiting, while you alone know on their turn whether the morph is a clock or a trap. It folds conditional permission into a tempo creature without ever declaring which role it is playing: not a threat and an answer bolted together, but a single card that becomes whichever one the moment demands.

Stratus Dancer (dtk)
DTK · #80rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $1.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Megamorph 1 generic manaBlue mana (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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