Community Mashup Set: Cardlist | Visual spoiler | Export | Booster | Comments | Search | Recent activity

CardName: Heavenly Dustdrifter Cost: W Type: Creature - Spirit Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: Counters remain on Heavenly Dustdrifter as it moves between the battlefield and exile. When Heavenly Dustdrifter is exiled, you may put a +1/+1 counter on it. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Community Mashup Set Uncommon

Heavenly Dustdrifter
{w}
 
 U 
Creature – Spirit
Counters remain on Heavenly Dustdrifter as it moves between the battlefield and exile.
When Heavenly Dustdrifter is exiled, you may put a +1/+1 counter on it.
1/1
Expand text
Updated on 13 Dec 2012 by Jack V

History: [-]

2012-12-12 18:45:33: Jack V created the card Heavenly Dustdrifter
on 12 Dec 2012 by Jack V:

From Clockwork Avian and Alex's Dustdrifter Spellblade.

This is the other half of Bird of Prey, mashing up the other halves of the two base cards that didn't use, mounting up +1 counters and exiling.

I considered a lot of variants, mostly around having this automatically blink itself. But couldn't fit both "blink me" and "I blink" on it, and I decided "blink me" was better.

For a while it automatically returned to play when it was exiled, but I decided Mark Rosewater was right, exile should be "gone", and not messed with by other cards.

2012-12-12 18:48:36: Jack V edited Heavenly Dustdrifter
on 12 Dec 2012 by Link:

Friends with Otherworldly Journey. I like it.

on 12 Dec 2012 by Jack V:

ROFL. Good point, I'd forgotten that existed, it matches perfectly :)

on 13 Dec 2012 by SadisticMystic:

Tricky templating here: it may keep its counters when it goes to exile, but right now it says nothing about keeping them if it comes back, and without that the counters won't do it much good.

on 13 Dec 2012 by dude1818:

"Counters remain on ~ as it moves to any zone other than a player's hand or library." Thank you Skullbriar.

2012-12-13 09:10:47: Jack V edited Heavenly Dustdrifter
on 13 Dec 2012 by Jack V:

OK, I feel stupid not realising the problem even after reading Skullbriar.

I decided to just make this battlefield and exile, as I don't think it should stay massive in the graveyard. I'm not sure if that's right -- it seems overspecified, and it might be problematic if it gets any non +1/+1 counters on it in exile that stay on in the battlefield. Any suggestions for improved wording?

Only signed-in users are permitted to comment on this cardset. Would you like to sign in?