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IS purty good. got two in my wizard deck.

the cool thing is, it can flip other versions of itself! bad thing is, if there both flipped they die!!

This is amazing give it flight so it costs 3 mana to get a 3/3 flyer and make all your other creatures flyers too thats amazing.

Considering the flip condition and color, this would've been much, much better at 1/4 than at 3/3. For two mana and having to give it flying, as well as the fact that having multiple in play will kill them all (one flips, they all flip), it should not be Boltable.

Good or not, this is just cool. I'm sure you can give it an enchantment that gives it toughness and flying. If not, at least you can return Shimmering Wings if it dies.

Elspeth, Knight-Errant

EternalLurker: When it was designed, it was immune to Shock. They shouldn't have to anticipate future sets.

I don't like the idea of having enchantments in my deck only to flip this guy and then become useless. That said, i'd prefer some one-shot effects, possibly with cycling, or alternative effects like Trickery Charm or Sapphire Charm.

Hey Tobi, Gravitational Shift said that you should get together sometime

One of my favorite Wizards and flip cards. Low cost and easy to flip to boot.

flight spell bomb?

leap?

@EternalLurker; If every two mana creature were immune to bolt, red would never win games.

Drake Umbra anyone?

This, Flight, Paradox Haze, and Mirror-Sigil Sergeant for a whole herd/flock of flying rhinos makes for a WU deck with plenty of muscle.

"Fallen Ideal

can this be played as the commander card in edh format?

That's an interesting flip condition. Nice flavor.
@thankyoubranch, no, because it doesn't start out legendary.

Pair with Wingcrafter from Avacyn Restored for some shenanigans lol.

*Student of Elements gets put into play*
*Another Student of Elements gets put into play*
"Heya, what's up, dude?"
"Trying to learn how to fly."
"Oh, wow, me too!! Anyway, gotta be on my way, good luck to you, see you up there, maybe."
"Yeah, you too, good flying!"

Later.

*One of the Student of Elements gains flying*
"I AM TOBITA, MASTER OF WINDS!!! Come on up, everyone, the view is great from up here!!"
Student of Elements: "What the... Whoa! I'm fyling! Awesome!! I AM TOBIT---"
"WHAT TH---"
"AAAAAUUUGGGHHH!!!"
"AAAAAUUUGGGHHH!!!"

*deth*

*Everything else plops down on their asses again*

@Arachnos: The problem with this card is that it's just too clunky. Chances are, you're spending two cards to give all your creatures flying -- at that point, you'd be better off waiting a bit and using Levitation or Wonder, or just using two flying-granting enchantments on your biggest creatures.

Also, even once he's flipped, he's vulnerable to creature removal. Not only that, but having him hit by removal once he's flipped will usually cost you two cards for one of your opponent's, since you wasted a card flipping him.

But the worst part is from a deck-design standpoint. For this creature to be useful, you have to include a way to make him fly in your deck (probably multiples, so you can rely on drawing it); but once he's flipped, those things are useless.

There are ways around this, but, like I said, too clunky -- the benefit he gives isn't worth carefully considering combinations of cards to get, not when the whole thing still collapses to any sort of creature-hate.

What's up with the *** rating? You can give him flying for as little as one mana, and then he gives flying to everything you control, permanently. It's not like he's expensive to cast, either.

Lord_of_Tresserhorn's comment made my entire day.