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CardName: Dispatch Stringer Cost: 2W Type: Creature - Bird Scout Pow/Tgh: 1/3 Rules Text: Flying When Dispatch Stringer enters the battlefield, if a spell was played during combat this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Flavour Text: Breaking news from a bird's-eye view. Set/Rarity: Soradyne Laboratories v1.2 Common

Dispatch Stringer

Creature – Bird Scout

Flying
When Dispatch Stringer enters the battlefield, if a spell was played during combat this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Breaking news from a bird's-eye view.

1/3

Updated on 17 Dec 2011 by SFletcher

Code: CW06

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2011-12-17 20:21:18: SFletcher created the card Dispatch Stringer

2011-12-17 20:21:52: SFletcher edited Dispatch Stringer

by Bombshell:

This is one of those 'may be too good' kind of cards that isn't, but I really like it. Solid for the cost, great bonus. Well done.

by Alex:

Nifty condition. Not seen that one before.

by M_Houlding:

What's funny is mocking this up as having kicker suddenly makes it look atrocious:

Dispatch Stringer
{2} {w}
Creature - Bird Scout (C)
Kicker — Discard a card and pay its mana cost
Flying
If ~ was kicked, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
1/3

That's like Prophecy-bad design right there.

by Vitenka:

"Discard a card, and pay its mana cost - and get the effect of it."

Pure card advantage thinking leads to designs like "0: Draw every card in your library, then draw a card." looking like a good thing.

by SFletcher:

I also like that it can trigger off an opponent's spell. It won't be as common a situation as one you create yourself, but it will work. On one hand, it may discourage a player from using tricks during another player's attack. On the other hand, those tricks are usually played to kill or save something – in which case the potential to maybe allow an opponent's future creature they may or may not have in hand to get +1/+1 is a pretty reasonable risk.

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