Resources: White Blink spells

Blink are called like this because of a great card in Time Spiral : Momentary Blink.



What is so great with this card ?
First, you can protect a creature from a spell that destroy it. Second, you can have an 'enter the battlefield effect' if you play it on a creature with one. Obviously, that's always useful.

Third, when this card was released, damages were put on the stack. So it means that you can deal damages and 'blink' your creature to save it. It was of course a huge combat trick.




For players, this kind of effect was then called 'blink' and in their mind it's a white or blue effect. But in fact, it was a effect that first appears in a white card in Urza's Destiny. Moreover it wasn't called 'blink' but 'flicker'. The idea behind this card, it's that white can let things be shaped anew, and start a new life.



Therefore, many cards allowed players to :
- blink a permanent you control
- blink any permanent
- blink many permanents

And we can distinguish two timings. In the first one, the permanent comes back in the battlefield right away, let's called it 'instant blink'.

In the second one, the permanents come back at the beginning of the next end phase. We can called it 'delayed blink'.

Blink cards had been a part of Magic for quite a long time now and also part of the white color. It was even really present in Avacyn Restored.



So let's start with a listing of white blink spells sorted by cost. These spells allows the player to 'blink' permanents.

1CC
Cloudshift
Planar Guide

2CC
Flicker
Liberate
Momentary Blink
Otherworldly Journey
Ruin Ghost

3CC
Astral Slide
Flickerwisp
Ghostway

4CC
Flickerform
Galepowder Mage
Glimmerpoint Stag
Restoration Angel

6CC
Sudden Disappearance

In another article, I'll publish blue, multicolor and artifact blink spells.