The Link and the Beacon

Type: Token

Rarity: Token

Mana Cost: —

Color Identity: Colorless

Reminder card. THE LINK: two creatures become linked. While both remain on the battlefield, each counter put on one is also put on the other, all damage dealt to one is also dealt to the other, and each ability one gains is also gained by the other. If a linked creature would die, instead break the link and remove all damage from both.

It is a MIRROR, not recursion. Nothing comes back from anywhere: two bodies simply share one state, and the link itself is the life the pair spends to survive a killing blow — once. Linking an opponent's creature to yours is a weapon, because damage you take is damage it takes.

PHONE HOME: the beacon is transmitting as long as you control The Speak and Spell, The Foil Umbrella, The Circular Saw Blade and The Record Player. Four ordinary household objects, no substitutes accepted. While all four stand, every card that reads the beacon turns on at once, and The Ship in the Clearing starts counting down to the ship.

“Four objects taken from a garage, a bedroom and a classroom, wired together by a ten-year-old, and it worked on the first night.”

Single card from the E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Phone Home) Commander deck. Sold individually.