Plus, youll have a trusty flier at your side
At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast it from exile without paying its mana cost.) When Ojer Pakpatiq dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owners control with three time counters on it
For example a removal spell that can't target Spellskite would be preferable to one that can, and in a devotion deck you might prefer the same creature for GG cost over 1G and so on, so no card is "absolutely under any circumstances better" than any other, but "strictly better" is still useful as a concept
This is also another early holiday card that doesnt do anything that doesnt work within the rules of Magic
It goes on the stack and can be responded to and countered
Were told by Wizards employees that the print run for this set was bigger than any other set ever, and the demand was still too high