Magic: The Gathering

Errant Ephemeron

Time Spiral 60 • common

Set: Time Spiral
Collector number: 60
Rarity: Common
Mana cost: 6 generic mana blue mana
Type: Creature
Colors: Blue
Artist: Luca Zontini
Market price: $0.04

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What it's worth

$0.04market price via TCGplayer · Oct 7, 2026$0.02 – $0.06 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

This card from the Time Spiral set invites players to manage a shifting battlefield, where its ability to trigger at the end of a turn rewards those who time their actions carefully. Despite its common rarity, it serves as a distinct example of the set's focus on temporal mechanics and transient effects.

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What it does

Flying

Suspend 4—1 generic mana blue mana (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay 1 generic mana blue mana and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Formats

Where you can play it

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperLegal
BrawlNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

Where it came from

The Errant Ephemeron was released in 2006 as part of the Time Spiral expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. This set was famously designed as a love letter to the game's long history, utilizing mechanics like suspend to revisit past design philosophies while introducing modern complexities. The card itself was conceived to evoke the ephemeral, shifting nature of time that defined the set's central narrative arc.

The illustration was created by the artist Dan Dos Santos, who utilized a ethereal, fluid aesthetic to capture the essence of a creature composed of temporal instability. Within the game's competitive environment, the card gained recognition for its efficiency and synergy with the suspend mechanic, quickly becoming a staple for players navigating the high-speed, strategic landscape of the Time Spiral block.

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About

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