Foil $3.08 Price History Your Inventory Sign in to see your inventory Data Reserved List No All Time High $19.96 All Time Low $1.21 Foil Multiplier 1.38x Spread 28.6% Buy List $1.60 Nonfoil Daily -$0.01 +0% Weekly $0.24 +12% Monthly $0.06 +3% Foil Daily $0.05 +2% Weekly -$0.02 -1% Monthly -$0.79 -20% Other printings Found In This print Aerith Gainsborough Lifelink Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Aerith Gainsborough
Decks that want to play counters are almost always control decks, and control decks would much prefer to gain life rather than cause opponents to lose life, so all things being equal they would have preferred to play with Absorb but there were other considerations that forced most of them down the black road instead
I mean, sure, its only five mana more and returns to your hand when it blocks, but at least Zephyr Spirit gets one more point of toughness
Ariel allows you to play Flounder Collectors Companion a little cheaper
Finkel, 33, has a fascinating history of number-crunching wizardry that extends far beyond the realm of Magic: The Gathering