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It joys me to see even DnT gets some love, even though we're missing Aven Mindcensor. Great fun with Æther Vial, and a good choice for an uncommon slot.
4/5

Run with Rushing-Tide Zubera in your Xenomorph theme deck.

Great card. Being a 3/1 flier is also quite scary. You get to remove a blocker for a turn, or use a big minus ability on your planeswalker, or reset an enemy planeswalker, or all of the other crazy stuff it can do, and then you get a powerful beater. 4.5/5

This card is an awesome creature variant of the Flickering we see so much of in Avacyn Restored. :) See Cloudshift and AVR's Blue cards.

@MinusOne: and Chained Throatseeker.

Almost certainly the inspiration for Restoration Angel.

@Arachnos: Spined Fluke? Skinrender? Corpse Cur? I can do this all day.

Great fun in R/W deck with another Flickerwisp and Warstorm Surge.

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.