Hey, looking for a comprehensive list of cards that can be abused or can enable abuse by flicker effects but that do not show up when you search "enters the battlefield" of "leaves the battlefield" in gatherer.
For purposes of obscurity I will not include noncreature artifacts and planswalkers as their entire archetypes would fit into here. I will also ignore lands that only tap for mana for the same reason.
*cough*Spike Weaver*cough* I mean, it enters with three +1/+1 counters, which fuel its ability, but that's not the real reason.
Obviously anything with fading or vanishing.
Unearth and variants thereof are an interesting one. Since you're exiling it, the replacement effect of exiling it doesn't matter.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Cards with Fading or Vanishing.
If you have haste enablers, Beguiler of Wills and other creatures with Tap abilities.
You can also reset undying or persist, like Glen Elendra Archmage.
Reset cards with cumulative upkeep.
mangara of corondor - notice that the cost of the ability is to tap, and the effect of the ability is to exile manger (UNTARGETED) and another permanent. So in response, flicker your corondor.... mangara isn't targeted, so the ability doesn't fizzle, and the other permanent gets exiled.
Yep. That was actually how morph was initially used. Astral Slide, anyone?
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
For purposes of obscurity I will not include noncreature artifacts and planswalkers as their entire archetypes would fit into here. I will also ignore lands that only tap for mana for the same reason.
List so far:
Obviously anything with fading or vanishing.
Unearth and variants thereof are an interesting one. Since you're exiling it, the replacement effect of exiling it doesn't matter.
On phasing:
https://scryfall.com/search?q=o:”tap+an+untapped”+o%3A%3A
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(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
If you have haste enablers, Beguiler of Wills and other creatures with Tap abilities.
You can also reset undying or persist, like Glen Elendra Archmage.
Reset cards with cumulative upkeep.
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Yep. That was actually how morph was initially used. Astral Slide, anyone?
On phasing:
Ah, that brings back great memories of flipping Exalted Angels for free. My old RW Slide deck was probably the most fun I ever had in 60 card Magic.