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Triton Waverider

Creature — Merfolk Wizard3 generic manaBlue mana

Constellation attached to evasion is a quieter reward than the mechanic usually offers, and the modesty is deliberate. Most enchantment triggers of this stripe scaled the board (a counter, a scry, a drain) in ways that stacked meaningfully across a turn. Here the payoff is temporary flying on an honest 3/3 body, which means the trigger only matters once per turn no matter how many enchantments you deploy: the second constellation trigger of a turn does nothing the first did not. That caps the ceiling on purpose. What it does buy is a clock that plays around the ground stall an enchantment deck tends to create, turning a midrange body into a repeatable evasive threat exactly on the turns you are advancing your own plan anyway. The Merfolk Wizard typing is incidental rather than tribal glue; the card is built for a board full of enchantments, not a board full of fish. It sits at the workhorse tier of constellation payoffs, the piece that gives an enchantment deck a way to actually close rather than a marquee engine that wins on its own. Read plainly, it is fixing the problem every go-wide enchantment strategy shares: plenty of value, no reach. A body that flickers into the air whenever you are already doing what you want to do is a modest but pointed answer to that.

Triton Waverider (thb)
THB · #78common
Pricing
Normal: $0.04
Foil: $0.03
Oracle Text

Rules text

Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, this creature gains flying until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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