Pointed Discussion

This card is so great with etb effects. Granted Restoration angel is usually better and Cloudshift is instant speed so you can use it during your opponents turn but you can also use it on your opponents permanents as well to get rid of counters on a planeswalker or whatever.

This card is excellent for someone who isn't perturbed by the strange Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Elemntal creature, and if you want to play a less weird looking, just as effective card, go with Cloudshift, or for Old Style points, Flicker.

The card is so proven it made it into Modern Masters as an uncommon, so the art was all I could think of that was a legitimate point of interest.

There's something I very much like about creepy white art like this.

That artwork is too creepy even for a black card. The least they could have done would have been to give it a new picture. Seriously. Did the art director tell the artist to paint "Satan's Flickerwisp of Death"?

Its wings disturb more than air
and its art disturbs more than just children

@ Umbric

That one mana is worth a LOT. Resto angel is fantastic but different versatility and and a lower cost definitely puts Flickerwisp even, if not better.

The number of things this hoses and messes with is huge; as discussed on just about any flicker card. This guy gets brutal with your own flicker effects but there's no need most of the time. He's evasive and beats down well, he chumps like a king, he enabled you to attack through a giant beater and breaks board stalls.

5/5

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.

Dear god, the facehuggers have learned to fly!

Let's use technical terms here, guys. This card is da bomb diggity.

Automorphs an Akroma, Angel of Fury and exiles a PERMANENT with Sundial of the Infinite. It's made for Vial. @Havrekjex said most of the rest.

Funny thing is, there's a deck where you can abuse most of that...