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Brine Comber // Brinebound Gift

Creature — Spirit // Enchantment — Aura

Whenever this creature enters or becomes the target of an Aura spell, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Disturb {W}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Innistrad: Double Feature
Price
$0.28
EDHREC rank
#19927
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Brine Comber // Brinebound Gift card art
Brine Comber // Brinebound Gift puts a Spirit token on the board every time you cast or copy a spell, then flips into an Aura that staples that same trigger to any creature you choose — the front face sets up the engine, the back face moves it. In Kykar, Wind's Fury or any token-centric blue-white shell, that loop of spell-cast triggers generating flying blockers and life drain is doing real work for two mana.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the natural home for Brine Comber // Brinebound Gift — spell-slinger and go-wide strategies in blue-white are everywhere, and a two-mana piece that rewards you for doing what you were already doing slots in cleanly. In Modern and Pioneer it's outpaced by faster payoffs; the trigger is incremental rather than explosive, and those formats punish cards that need time to accumulate value. Legacy and Vintage have the raw spell density to make the trigger fire constantly, but neither format is looking for a 2/2 Spirit as its payoff engine. Commander is where this card earns its slot.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.28 bulk tier

At $0.28, Brine Comber // Brinebound Gift is firmly bulk, which is accurate to its power level — it's a role-player, not a staple. The price is stable; there's no breakout commander or combo that figures to spike demand.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.