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Middling card that aspires to be Flicker. As with that card, some highly amusing combos can arise.

I like this card a lot. It would probably be too good if it had Flash. You can remove auras or +1/+1 counters from opposing creatures, reset your own creatures with counters on them, use comes into play abilities for a second time etc. And last but not least are 3 flying power for 3 mana a good deal.

So does this get rid of marit lage tokens permanently?

Nice card. You might be surprised just how much damage a 3/1 flyer for three mana can wreak. It's extra ability is just waiting for all kinds of mild abuse.

Comes in handy for destroying all the buffs that 7/7 trample creature was given last turn. And is it me or does it look like a Facehugger with wings?

Great card, and even better when used at instant speed with Aether Vial. Remove an attacker, save a blocker, kill a token creature, remove counters off an opponent's card, make Oblivion Ring exile two cards, tap out and then have a land up for an instant on opponent's turn... etc etc etc.

Is it just me or do these look like the things that steal people's inhibitions from XXXHolic?

why such low ratting there are so many uses for its ability I just wrote a long rant about how amazing glimmerpoint stag is which has the same abilty I am to lazy to rewrite it so here are my exact words.

I love this card there are so many uses for its ability I could destroy a plainswalker Aura or creator token I could make target creator not able to block this turn I could exile my Twilight Shepherd to remove the -1/-1 counter on it and to return all creators from my graveyard to my hand this turn and at the same time gain 5 life because of Archon of Redemption or I could get a another free plains from kor Cartographer or move my Oblivion Ring from one thing to another and there is a good chance that the original will stay dead if it was say a plainswalker draw a exstra card with wall of omens the list goes on and on 5/5!

But really, the art is terrifying. Doesn't seem like a white creature at all.
Niche card; I like it a bunch.

Owns protein hydra

It looks like a white creature from Eventide, not any worse than the white Phyrexians we have now.

Combos with Evoke creatures. Also very, very good with Sun Titan: The Titan retrieves all copies of Flickerwisp from your graveyard + another permanent with converted manacost 3 or less.

@dragonking987: Please, next time write legibly, you sound like you're manic. Oh wait, here it is so you'll understand it:
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Happy?

I'm just wondering, are white elementals supposed to look like my nightmares given form?

I like you better than Glimmerpoint Stag, Flickerwisp. You'll always be the annoying one for me.

It should have Evoke .

This is my favorite white card of all time. People have already mentioned the efficiency and a few comparisons so I will get right to my favorite combos:

Tokens! Maul Splicer, Cloudgoat Ranger, Chancellor of the Forge
Resources! Soul Warden, Suture Priest, Elvish Visionary, Farhaven Elf
Removal! Acidic Slime, Exclusion Ritual, Sparkmage Apprentice, Furystoke Giant, Flametongue Kavu
Shenanigans! Flicker another Flickerwisp and then deprive your opponent of something then need next turn, use miraculous recovery to do these things instantly, remove a blocker, kill a token, force an additional bounce on a bounce land, get your permanents back, (re)move auras...

The efficiency is insane. for a 3/1 flier AND two 3/3 golems, or AND exile a nonland permanent forever or AND double all your creatures again. Let me assure you, when you play this kind of deck, and start flickering your own 'Wisps, your opponents will respond, and you will have one in your graveyard by the time you start thinking about casting Miraculous Recovery. You might think Momentary Blink is an appropriate card, but it pales in comparison because you don't also get a body with it.
When you build around this, don't forget to include the Glimmerpoint Stags and the Galepowder Mages.

@Dragonking987 Never stop posting.

As for the card, it has a multitude of uses, attached to a useful 3/1 Flyer for a perfectly reasonable mana cost. Having an Aether Vial in play with 3 counters on it makes it exponentially better.

But god is that thing creepy looking.

Ignoring the hundreds of uses this has, it's a 3/1 flyer for 3, which isn't bad. In fact, if you bounce back one of your tapped lands, it's virtually a 3/1 for 2, which is great.

Now, we can take a look at all the other things it can do.

1. Freak out your opponent with its art
2. Can shield your eyes from the glare of the sun.
3. Can be turned into pulp, than recycled into a completely different piece of paper
4. Tear it up and use it as confetti.
5. Use it as a proxy for another card.
6. Fling it to create a diversion so you can place down a Cheatyface.

And it also has a readily abuseable ability that can reset planeswalkers, kill tokens, retrigger ETB effects, untap lands, remove blockers, destroy auras, unequip equipment, return creatures to your control, protect things from mass removal, and the list goes on.

Does anyone else want to put this into a deck just because of its awesome art?

Kind of backwards and more violent version in Fiend Hunter...

Oh hai there Venser, the Sojourner and Sundial of the Infinite wanna come over to my place and hang out for a bit?

A very interesting mirror to the elementals of Lorwyn. Very eerie.

I'd rather it had Flash instead of Flying... But I love all flicker effects, so I'm cool with this.

I know it wouldn't have fit in with the flavour in the slightest but part of me really wishes this got reprinted in Avacyn Restored, considering the flicker effects that abound in that set.

@ Guest1381794618: That's a good idea, but unfortunately, if you flicker the Wisp with Venser, it exiles something your opponent has for the entirety of their next turn because the Wisp is returned at the end of your turn, so you couldn't exile it permanently with the Sundial. You'd need something like Time Stop instead. However, if you had Cloudshift instead of Venser...

The most Black looking white creature I've ever seen!!!!!

The illustration may look weird by white's standards, but that's hardly a bad thing, and it definitely doesn't look black, or any other colour, unlike some people claim. It's way too angelic and celestial-looking for that.

True shame that it doesn't have flash, but a 3/1 for 3-cmc with flying is STILL a 3/1 with flying.

Flickering cards in and out is nice, especially when you can target anything (without shroud/hexproof, obviously). You can flicker out a blocker, an enchantment that'll hurt you (eg. Propaganda) or your own thing that will die soon (maybe it's going to vanish, or it's got a lot of -1/-1 counters on it. You know, all that Shadowmoor stuff...).

As kiseki said, fickering can break cards so well.

jesus donkey-riding christ, that thing is scary looking.

why is this not listed as a horror

also, it's only uncommon? Wow. I'd assumed it was rare.

That artwork is too creepy even for a black card.

How about you guys present yourselves?

Phage the Untouchable, Flickerwisp.
Flickerwisp, Phage the Untouchable.

The first time I saw this card, I saw a poor man's Restoration Angel. I thought that it was hopelessly inferior because it doesn't have flash, and the exiled permanent doesn't return until EOT. Then it dawned on me... any permanent. While it isn't as effective as Resto and Cloudshift for abusing your own ETB triggers, and it can't save a creature mid-combat, it has about a million other applications. This is based on someone else's work, props to the guy who wrote this on a certain Internet forum.

1. Cast it to reuse a positive ETB trigger on one of your creatures (Thragtusk, Blade Splicer), or a negative one on one of your opponent's creatures (Phyrexian Dreadnought).
2. Cast it to untap one of your own creatures after attacking with it.
3. Cast it targeting your own land to untap it, basically making it cost one less mana that you can use on something at instant speed (Path to Exile and Lighting Bolt ready in your opponent's turn).
4. Cast it to remove a blocker.
5. Cast it to kill one of your opponent's creature tokens.
6. Cast it to remove/reset counters;
__a) targeting an opposing Æther Vial, Engineered Explosives, Chalice of the Void, Protean Hydra, etc. to remove all counters from it.
__b) targeting a planeswalker to reset its number of loyalty counters.
__c) targeting your own permanent to remove upkeep counters (Jötun Grunt), vanishing counters (Deadwood Treefolk), fading counters, -1/-1 counters (Kitchen Finks), +1/+1 counters (Geralf's Messenger).
__d) targeting your own permanent to restore counters (Triskelion, Serrated Arrows).
7. Cast it targeting your Oblivion Ring or Phyrexian Revoker to switch targets when it comes back.
8. Cast it targeting another Flickerwisp you own so that when the second comes back, it removes something for the entire next turn.

For many of the cards mentioned as examples, there are literally hundreds of others with similar functions. Yet, all this is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what you can do with it if you've also got Æther Vial. Instant speed breaks this card in half.

Probably one of my favourite cards ever. 5/5.

How does this not "look like a white creature?" Just because a creature looks grotesque doesn't mean it can't be white. If you think you can judge someone's morality simply based on how ugly they look, you are basically one of the elves from Lorwyn.