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Swans of Bryn Argoll

Creature — Bird Spirit2 generic manaWhite or Blue manaWhite or Blue mana

The damage-prevention clause rewires what it means to point a removal spell at this creature: burn aimed at it doesn't kill anything, it converts the damage into cards for whoever controlled the source. That detail is the whole engine and the whole catch. The drawer is the source's controller, so this is a one-way spigot only when you are the one aiming fire at your own bird. Any pinger or repeatable damage source on your side becomes a refill, drawing cards equal to the damage prevented while the 4/3 flier shrugs all of it off. The other edge: an opponent who burns it draws the cards instead, and an opponent's blocker that connects in combat does the same. The prevention is symmetric, but the card-draw always follows the damage back to its controller. That makes it a combo piece more than an attacker, the kind of effect that asks what happens when damage never lands and answers with a hand refill rather than a dead creature. It is deliberately lopsided: harmless across the table from a deck that has no reason to hit it, a runaway loop across from a build engineered to point its own fire at it. The clean evasive body is almost incidental; the real text is a question about who owns the damage source, and the answer decides who profits.

Swans of Bryn Argoll (shm)
SHM · #151rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.66
Foil: $10.58
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying If a source would deal damage to this creature, prevent that damage. The source's controller draws cards equal to the damage prevented this way.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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