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Stratus Walk

Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaBlue mana

Flying-granting Auras have always carried the threat of card disadvantage: spend a card to make your creature harder to block, eat a removal spell, and now you are down two. This one answers the oldest complaint against the genre by replacing itself the moment it lands. The draw is keyed to the Aura entering the battlefield, not to the creature surviving past the turn, so the card pays for itself on resolution. The window matters: if removal answers the target while the Aura is still on the stack, the Aura has no legal target, fails to resolve, and the trigger never fires, so the trick is to resolve it cleanly rather than into open mana. Once it sticks, even a removal spell on the following turn leaves you even on cards, with the evasion riding for free on a spell that already broke even. The defensive clause restricting the enchanted creature to blocking only fliers is a genuine cost that keeps the card honest, though it rarely bites on the attackers these Auras are built to ride. It descends from a long line of cheap blue flight-grantors stretching back to Flight itself, and the cantrip is where it parts ways with those ancestors and with its closest functional cousin, Spectral Flight, which buys a stat boost where this buys a card. As evasion enabling, it is the version that does not ask you to gamble on the creature outliving the investment.

Stratus Walk (ori)
ORI · #77common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.69
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature has flying. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Enchanted creature can block only creatures with flying.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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