Nothing special, but frankly there's not a great many better aggressive one drops in blue.
Equinox523
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(7 votes)
Makes me nostalgic for the days of Unstable Mutation and Flying Men taking to the skies and beating people down for 4 on turn 2. No surprise that these two partners in crime were both brought back for Time Spiral.
PEVE_O
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(9 votes)
Shouldn't it be Flying man? there is only 1 in the art.
anyway it is still cooler than its fairy counterpart.
OMFGrhombus
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(9 votes)
Strictly better than Baneslayer Angel.
ArgivianArchaeologis
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
1 mana for a 1/1 flying creature. sure!!.... the artwork is coool. but flying men? lol
faisjdas
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(9 votes)
FLYING MEN SAYS *** YOU ZEPHYR SPRITE
Bluehero
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(9 votes)
If you did have twenty of these dudes like the chick in the flavor text you would win the game. Therefore, this is an amazing card.
Kryptnyt clapped his hands, and twenty flying men appeared, then he played a mountain and casted rite of flame, lotus petal, and Fires of Yavimaya to give them all haste. Good Game.
ChampionofSquee
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
lol this kicks serious Ass. I would take this over Zephyr Sprite any day
allmighty_abacus
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Then Saffiya's opponent reminded her that she can't have more than 4 creatures with the same name in a deck, and that it was only the second turn and she only had two islands out so she could only play two anyway, and finally stated that she hadn't even drawn any in her opening hand and had tried to cast them all directly from her library, and Saffiya looked around, completely embarrassed by her own stupidity.
I find it hilarious that a man with a scimitar on a flying carpet has identical stats to a 6 inch fairy with a toothpick. or better yet, a pair of 3 inch tall unarmed fairies.
ClockworkSwordfish
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(9 votes)
This costs 1/5 what Baneslayer does, has 1/5 the PT, but has 1/4 the abilities. Math says that this is better.
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(7 votes)
He's nice for blue. However, he's about 20 times better if you run him alongside Urza's Contact Lenses.
What's funny about this card is that right after it came out Wizards backpedaled from the concept. Yes, Blue gets most of the mana-efficient flying creatures, but White and Green ere supposed to be the colors of low-cost "weenie" creatures. White got Suntail Hawk, Green got Scryb Sprites, and this was before Color Pie went into effect. Afterward Blue had even less in the way of cheap flyers for a while.
All this fear over a 1/1. Then again, this was back in the day of Blue already having an answer to everything (Counterspell et al), but I still find it silly. In all the games I've ever seen Flying Men come out, they've never turned the tide. Bought a turn, maybe, but never turned the tide.
Dr_Fletchers
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I thought this card was an Unhinged joke for awhile by looking at its name and picture.
Salient
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Exactly what it says on the tin.
Flying men. They are men. They can fly.
Stinga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Squadala. We're off!
vantha
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This just screams the most Metrosexual sounding magic card ever printed.
@EvilDarkVoid This is a human. A much more relevant and prevalent tribe than Illusion.
PopcornBunni
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Life is but a moment, a single grain of sand That slips right through the hourglass, and slips right through your hand
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
1/1 for 1 = bad Add flying and can work with it.
Arachnos
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Considering that they die to a Sanctuary Cat, I don't think they're THAT well-trained in the art of combat.
Enelysios
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
You are all missing the biggest issue here. This reprint is just "Human". This is a huge nerf from the original "Summon flying men" type line.
land_comment
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's really, really, not that bad. Sure, some stuff is strictly better... but don't harsh. In EDH I've seen worse plays.
Thehyeszman
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
SQUADALLA, WE'RE OFF!
That's all I have to say about that.
Casimir_the_Great
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Honestly, a one-drop flier is nothing to scoff at. True, there's plenty of better alternatives, but does Nivmagus Elemental have flying? Can you attack with Steel Wall? Can you block with Ponder? All good cards in their own right, but this guy's (these guys?) got something on each one of them.
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hallelujah, it Flying Men!
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Jace's Phantasm is better. Even ignoring its ability and thinking in terms of creature type -- yes, human has more support, but not, generally, in blue.
A Lord of the Unreal works much better with a small weenie evasion strategy than anything humans have available, since it simultaneously makes your tiny evading illusions more threatening, and makes them immune to removal, leaving your opponent with no way to handle them. Krovikan Mist and Narcomoeba fit in, too.
What are you going to do with this, by comparison? None of the human support is really very relevant for a small blue evasion card.
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anyway it is still cooler than its fairy counterpart.
I find it hilarious that a man with a scimitar on a flying carpet has identical stats to a 6 inch fairy with a toothpick. or better yet, a pair of 3 inch tall unarmed fairies.
*clap*
All this fear over a 1/1. Then again, this was back in the day of Blue already having an answer to everything (Counterspell et al), but I still find it silly. In all the games I've ever seen Flying Men come out, they've never turned the tide. Bought a turn, maybe, but never turned the tide.
Flying men. They are men. They can fly.
That slips right through the hourglass, and slips right through your hand
Add flying and can work with it.
That's all I have to say about that.
A Lord of the Unreal works much better with a small weenie evasion strategy than anything humans have available, since it simultaneously makes your tiny evading illusions more threatening, and makes them immune to removal, leaving your opponent with no way to handle them. Krovikan Mist and Narcomoeba fit in, too.
What are you going to do with this, by comparison? None of the human support is really very relevant for a small blue evasion card.