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Krenko’s Guide to Creature Types: Blinkmoth

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What is a Blinkmoth (flavorfully)?

Blinkmoths are tiny, glowing bugs that fly around in swarms on Mirrodin. They are filled with a drug called Lymph that grants the drinker a significant boost to intelligence, but is highly addictive and can cause long-term health issues.

What is a Blinkmoth (mechanically)?

Both Blinkmoth cards are lands that tap for colorless mana or animate to become a 1/1 artifact creature with flying.

Can I make a Blinkmoth deck?

Affinity/Robots, one of the best decks in Modern, runs a full playset of both Blinkmoths. That’s all the Blinkmoths. That is peak Blinkmoth. You can’t run more Blinkmoths than that. It’s not possible.

Is Blinkmoth a good creature type?

Blinkmoth as a type exists because one of the Blinkmoths has the ability to give a Blinkmoth, including itself, +1/+1 until end of turn. Changing this to any other creature type is a buff for Blinkmoth Nexus, and possibly a significant one. It would probably be safe to make them Insects and have the ability work on Insects, but these are two cards that don’t need the buff of a relevant creature type, and the original was likely designed as a Blinkmoth specifically so it couldn’t be used to buff any real creature.

Blinkmoth is fine. Its job is to sequester Blinkmoth Nexus, and I think that’s the right call. I wouldn’t complain if it was an Insect, mind, and I’d be eager to see someone try and break “Modern Insects” with Blinkmoths and Delver of Secrets, but I’m not going to call out this type for being too narrow. It’s deliberately narrow for good reason.

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