Card
Faerie Impostor
Mana cost {U}
Flying When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you return another creature you control to its owner's hand.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 3 known combos. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · RTR · #39
- Cheapest printing
- €0.15
- EDHREC salt
- 0.63
- Color identity
- Blue
- Keywords
- Flying
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
3 known combos.
- Archmage of Echoes + Quickling + Cloud of Faeries + Faerie Impostor
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Reflections of Littjara + Quickling + Cloud of Faeries + Faerie Impostor
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Dual Nature + Faerie Impostor + Phyrexian Altar
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2012-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Returning another creature you control to its owner’s hand is optional. You may choose to sacrifice Faerie Impostor, even if you could return a creature.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast