Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it’s not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can’t be made. For example, if a permanent with “cumulative upkeep {1}” has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay {4} or sacrifice the permanent.
This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from ME1 — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #38 of *Masters Edition*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2007 Masters Edition release.
Card type: Creature — Illusion, color identity blue, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {3}{U} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Cumulative upkeep and Flying.
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.
EDHrec ranks this card #30,525 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Justin Hampton. Rarix catalogs 57 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Justin Hampton
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