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Wingfold Pteron

Creature — Dinosaur5 generic manaBlue mana

Two nearly identical dinosaurs collapsed into one card, with the difference deferred to the exact moment you need to know it. As this 3/6 resolves, a replacement effect asks a single question: does the board want a flyer that soars over the ground and pokes in for three behind six toughness, or an untouchable wall that shrugs off every targeted removal spell your opponent has drawn? You pick once, right then, and the choice sticks. This is a keyword counter doing the work a modal spell would otherwise spell out in paragraphs: rather than print both bodies, the design hands you the fork at resolution, where you have the most information about which half of the split you actually need. Flying and hexproof read as the genuine keywords here, so the counters are physical objects once they land, which matters for anything that moves counters around, though a redundant flying or hexproof would do nothing; the modality is a one-time decision, not a resource you keep spending. It will never be a marquee card. The body is slow, the payoff is one binary, and six mana buys a wall with a single decision attached. But as a small study in the keyword-counter frame it is clean: one creature, two roles, no modal text bloat, and the fork placed exactly where information is highest.

Wingfold Pteron (iko)
IKO · #71common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature enters with your choice of a flying counter or a hexproof counter on it. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
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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