Balloons and the Book

Type: Token

Rarity: Token

Mana Cost: —

Color Identity: Colorless

Reminder card. Balloons N: enters with N balloon counters. With three or more, it has flying and hexproof. Whenever it's dealt damage, remove a balloon counter. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a balloon counter.

Lift is rented, never owned. The threshold is three, and every one of your upkeeps takes one away whether you use it or not, so a permanent that entered with exactly three is on the ground again next turn unless you inflate it. Balloon counters go on ANY permanent, not just creatures.

My Adventure Book: this Saga enters with a chapter counter on it and doesn't get chapter counters at the beginning of your precombat main phase. At the beginning of your end step, if you put a balloon counter on a permanent this turn, put a chapter counter on it. Its final chapter is Stuff I'm Going to Do.

The book never advances on a clock, only on a turn where you actually inflated something. It is face up and public from the moment it is cast.

“Two mechanics, one dependency: nothing in this deck moves forward on a turn where nothing went up.”

Single card from the UP (Adventure Is Out There) Commander deck. Sold individually.