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Tide Drifter

Creature — Eldrazi Drone1 generic manaBlue mana

A 0/5 anchor that asks the colorless deck to stop thinking like a creature and start thinking like a board. The body alone is a wall, the kind of cheap toughness that turns aside early aggression while doing nothing on offense, but the real function is the anthem riding on it: every other colorless creature you control gains an extra point of toughness. That is a deliberately narrow lord. It does not pump power, so it never threatens to snowball a board into lethal on its own; it raises the floor instead, nudging fragile drones and Eldrazi spawn just past the most common sweeper math and small-creature trades. Devoid is the connective tissue that makes the static ability matter at all, since the anthem reads colorless rather than tribal, rewarding a deck built entirely around the absence of color rather than a single creature type. The design sits in the support slot of an archetype rather than its top end: it wants you to already be flooding the board with colorless bodies, then quietly survives the turns where those bodies would otherwise die. As a piece of mono-defensive enabling it is honest about its ceiling, which is low, and clear about its job, which is to keep a wide colorless board alive long enough for the expensive payoffs to land.

Tide Drifter (bfz)
BFZ · #67uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.47
Oracle Text

Rules text

Devoid (This card has no color.) Other colorless creatures you control get +0/+1.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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