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Waterspout Warden

Creature — Frog Soldier2 generic manaBlue mana

The evasion here is conditional in a way that ties the card's clock to the board development you were already doing. It attacks as a 3/2 ground creature by default, and only lifts off if another creature has joined your side that turn: a token, a second spell, a flicker, anything that trips an enters-the-battlefield count. That coupling is the design logic. Rather than granting flat evasion or asking you to pay for it turn after turn, the card rewards a go-wide tempo plan by turning the extra body you just dropped into the reason your attacker gets through. The flying only lasts until end of turn, so each swing has to re-earn it: a leash that pins the payoff to how fast you can flood the board rather than letting a durdling deck bank a free evasive threat. The 3/2 body matters to the math. It wants to be attacking early and often, before blockers stack up, which is exactly when a token-heavy start is generating the extra creatures that switch the trigger on. This is a payoff built to sit at the top of a curve full of cheap creatures, an incentive to keep casting rather than a standalone threat, and the deck it wants is one where playing a second creature each turn is already the plan.

Waterspout Warden (blb)
BLB · #80common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, if another creature entered the battlefield under your control this turn, this creature gains flying until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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