Etb Value

Creatures with enter-the-battlefield triggers that produce non-damage, non-removal, non-token value: drawing cards, fetching lands, returning cards from the graveyard. Mulldrifter draws two on arrival, Wood Elves and Solemn Simulacrum search out lands, Eternal Witness recurs a card from the graveyard, and Karmic Guide reanimates. These are the bread-and-butter targets for blink and bounce-and-replay engines. Distinct from flicker.etb_token, which creates bodies on entry, flicker.etb_damage, which drains or burns on entry, and flicker.etb_removal, which kills or exiles a permanent on entry. Also distinct from flicker.ltb_trigger, where the payoff fires when the creature leaves rather than enters.