Tidewalker
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SetPLC
Collector #49
Released2007-02-02
Rarityuncommon
ArtistDave Kendall
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Tidewalker

UncommonColour IDMV 3
Creature — Elemental
This creature enters with a time counter on it for each Island you control.
Vanishing (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from this creature. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
Tidewalker's power and toughness are each equal to the number of time counters on it.
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Keywords
Vanishing
Card capabilities
Creature
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (2)
wotc1 Feb 2007
If you don't control any Islands when Tidewalker enters, its vanishing ability has no effect. (It enters with no time counters on it, so neither of the vanishing triggers can trigger. See "Vanishing" in the General Notes section above.) On the other hand, it will be 0/0 and will be put into its owner's graveyard unless something is boosting its toughness.
wotc1 Feb 2007
Unless something is boosting Tidewalker's toughness, when the last time counter is removed, it will be put into the graveyard as a state-based action for having 0 toughness before it can be sacrificed as the result of vanishing.