Seems curiously worse than Cloudshift / Momentary Blink.

EDIT: Oh, I missed that this can be used offensively, like Turn to Mist / Otherworldly Journey. It's harder to use the insta-blink kind of blink effect offensively than the slow-blink kind, though.

good points on this card. i agree that other cards do this sort of effect better, but i have a feeling that within the context of this set blinking could be a strong effect. it allows creatures who've used all their counters to come back with more, and enables tithe. it might enable synthesis as well, not sure how the rules interact there (would want it do, so i might need to do some tweaking).

i have nothing against using a reprint in theory, but for now i'd like to use my own card so that i can cost it appropriately depending on how strong blinking is in the set. also i'm doing some small nods to cards from odyssey/onslaught block with the names, and i liked this one (it's a riff on Profane Prayers).

That's all fair enough. I will just note though that Cloudshift was printed in Avacyn Restored specifically because blink was so good in the set (they added blink because it interacted so well with soulbond).

Added a way for this card to suggest what cards it combos well with, as well as make it better for the cost. possibly too good given otherworldly journey was an uncommon in its first print run, but i think a growth counter is worse than a +1/+1 counter and flickering has become more commonplace since then.

Yeah, I'd say this is fine. The reduce in rarity from Kamigawa to Modern Masters just shows how much more comfortable they are with flickering at common these days. (I played a deck last night with the original Flicker in it, which was rare!)