Essence Flux
Innistrad Remastered 354 • common
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Collector number
- 354
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Seb McKinnon
- Market price
- $1.91
What it does
Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If it's a Spirit, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
A spirit is both fettered and free—bound in some ways to its previous existence, yet able to transcend much of the corporeal.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Essence Flux was originally introduced in the 2016 Shadows over Innistrad set as a representation of the eerie, transformative magic found within the plane. The card functions as a blink effect, allowing a player to exile a creature and return it to the battlefield transformed or reinforced, reflecting the set’s mechanical focus on graveyard recursion and shifting states. It was designed to provide efficient protection and utility for spirit-themed decks during a period when the game was leaning heavily into gothic horror motifs.
The Innistrad Remastered version, released in 2025, serves as a curated retrospective of the most iconic and mechanically significant cards from across the plane's history. The illustration for this specific printing maintains the atmospheric, somber aesthetic established by the original artists, focusing on the ethereal and ghostly energy central to the setting. By incorporating this card into the Remastered set, the designers aimed to preserve the strategic depth of the original Shadows over Innistrad environment while providing updated, aesthetically cohesive versions for contemporary draft and constructed formats.
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