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Windrider Patrol

Creature — Merfolk Wizard3 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

A flying body that smooths your draws every time it connects is a familiar value proposition, but the math here is worth tracing. Five mana for a 4/3 flier is a fair midrange rate; the card's argument is that the rate compounds. Connect once and you scry 2, filtering toward your next land or threat; connect twice and you've effectively dug four cards deep while the clock keeps ticking. Evasion is what makes the trigger reliable: a ground creature with the same text has to push through blockers to bank its filtering, whereas flight means the scry is closer to a guarantee against most boards. The design tension sits in the 3 toughness. It flies over creatures but dies to most reach and a fair share of burn, so the engine is built to reward the player who's already ahead rather than to stabilize one who's behind. That places it squarely in the lineage of evasive value-fliers whose text card pays off the same offense the body is already conducting: the attack is the cost, the scry is the dividend, and the two are inseparable. It is a finisher that lets you find your other finishers, the kind of late-game blue card that doesn't end the game by itself but ensures every subsequent turn draws closer to a card that will.

Windrider Patrol (bfz)
BFZ · #89uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

2 sets
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