Skyclave Apparition

Oracle Text

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Card Details

2/2Power / Toughness

1WWMana Cost

10Prints

Set

Mystery Booster 2 · View all prints →

Character Background

Skyclave Apparition is a premier tempo-and-control tool that turns the battlefield into a puzzle your opponent has to solve on your terms. As a Kor Spirit, it feels like a vigilant sky hunter from a forgotten ruin, briefly materializing to banish a key threat before drifting away and leaving only a spectral echo behind. In practice, it cleanly answers many of the format’s most important nonland permanents at mana value 4 or less—planeswalkers, cheap engines, efficient creatures, and disruptive artifacts or enchantments—while advancing your board with a 2/2 body. It shines especially in white-based midrange and blink shells, where Ephemerate, Teleportation Circle, or Yorion-style effects can repeatedly trigger the exile ability and force awkward timing from the opponent. Just note the leave-the-battlefield clause: if your deck can sacrifice or bounce it on demand, you can sometimes choose when the Illusion token appears, but if you blink it, the original card returns first, so sequencing matters.

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