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Unwelcome Sprite

Creature — Faerie Rogue1 generic manaBlue mana

Faeries have always flirted with instant-speed play, but their payoffs usually lived in the interaction itself: the tempo of a bounce, the two-for-one of a countered spell. This flier attaches a graveyard engine to that same habit, and its trigger is pointedly indifferent to what you cast. Fire off any spell while an opponent is acting and you sculpt your next two draws, dumping delve fuel or flashback fodder into the yard and digging past whatever you did not want. It converts the discipline of leaving mana open into card selection you were harvesting for free, so reactive play stops being purely reactive. The 2/1 flying body is both the cost and the clock: fragile enough to fall to almost any blocker, evasive enough to close a grinding game while the surveil quietly builds. The design leans on a specific player behavior rather than a specific card: it does not ask what is in your deck, only that you have learned to hold up mana and respond instead of tapping out and hoping. Read that way, it is less a two-drop than a tax break for correct timing, rewarding the habit that flash-heavy blue has always wanted an excuse to keep.

Unwelcome Sprite (ecl)
ECL · #81uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library. You may put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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