Original Card: Willow Faerie ­

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• Removed flying. Added 'can't be blocked except by.."
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• Added +0/+1.
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My only problem with this card is one of casting cost. Green doesn't have enough mid-sized creatures in common. I want to bring this up to 2/2 for or 3/2 for , but then it wouldn't be the best Willow Faerie it could be.

This ability is just as out-of-pie as flying. Also, did the artist forget to finish the background or something?

Green has a long history of this ability, and received it as early as RTR block in Spire Tracer, and before that, in Innistrad with Orchard Spirit. Jmgariepy forgot "or reach," and added a superfluous comma, but it's not out-of-color by recent precedent.

Thanks for the catch, Link.

It's still pretty hated by Maro. His argument is something like "Green doesn't get flying. Writing it out instead of making it a keyword doesn't make it not flying!"

And, well, Scryb Sprites.

(And I just typo'd that as 'flaying' and now want that to be a keyword.)

I don't disagree. I like the idea, philosophically. These are the creatures that hang out in the treetops. Of course you can't block them, and of course they can't block flyers. Still seems wrong, though. But it's the most logical answer for the green flyers in the set, without wholesale making something new.

Well, the other obvious choice is 1/1 hexproof; given the flavour text as Autumn Willows relatives.

Bonus silliness - how did they get the deer up into the treetops?