Riftwing Cloudskate
Time Spiral 73 • uncommon
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Collector number
- 73
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Carl Critchlow
- Market price
- $0.16
What it does
Flying
When this creature enters, return target permanent to its owner's hand.
Suspend 3—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 three 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.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Riftwing Cloudskate 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 decade-long history, featuring numerous mechanical callbacks and temporal themes that saw past elements of the game reimagined. The card itself utilizes the 'bounce' mechanic, allowing players to return permanents to their owner's hand, reflecting the set's focus on complex interactions and nostalgia-driven gameplay.
The card was illustrated by Heather Hudson, a prolific artist in the early years of the game. Her design for the creature emphasizes the ethereal and fluid nature of a creature native to the time-warped environment of the set's setting, Otaria. Upon its release, the card was widely utilized in competitive formats, particularly for its efficiency and utility, eventually becoming a staple in various blue-aligned control decks of that era.
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