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Valley Floodcaller

Creature — Otter Wizard2 generic manaBlue mana

The whole engine turns on one word: untap. A cost reducer or a prowess payoff is a familiar shape, but this Otter takes each noncreature spell you cast and refunds the attack, pumping and then untapping your board of Birds, Frogs, Otters, and Rats mid-combat. That untap clause is what turns a token-based tempo deck into a storm-adjacent kill: creatures that already swung are ready to block, but more to the point they are ready to be tapped again for anything that costs a tap, so a chain of cheap spells becomes a chain of activations. Granting flash to every noncreature spell in the deck is the enabler that makes the payoff live on the opponent's turn, letting the pilot hold up interaction and then unspool the whole sequence when they choose, rather than telegraphing it on their own main phase. Flash on the body itself keeps the piece safe: it lands at the end step and dodges sorcery-speed removal. The design lineage is the graveyard-free, board-centric answer to storm: not a single lethal spell but a small creatures deck that converts a fistful of cheap noncreature cards into repeated combat and repeated taps, with the untap trigger doing the structural work that a ritual chain does in a spellslinger shell.

Valley Floodcaller (blb)
BLB · #308rare
Pricing
Normal: $7.39
Foil: $22.48
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash You may cast noncreature spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Birds, Frogs, Otters, and Rats you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap them.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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