Tidebinder: Stop the Trigger
Tishana's Tidebinder is a concise tool for tempo and interaction in blue decks that want to shape the stack. The card lets you answer one activated or triggered ability as it resolves, which is enough to collapse a combo step or blunt a creature trick. With flash and a 3 2 body you can deploy it on your opponent's end step and immediately change the game state without committing to a long fight over board control.
Seen in the Lost Caverns of Ixalan borderless treatment with medium play foil, Tishana's Tidebinder reads like a utility creature rather than a finisher. Use it to neutralize a critical ability on an artifact, creature, or planeswalker and then maintain that disable while Tidebinder stays on the battlefield. It fits well in control shells that value flexible interaction and in tempo builds that need a reactive drop with a relevant body.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {2}{U}
- Card Type – Creature
- Subtypes – Merfolk Wizard
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Flash When Tishana's Tidebinder enters the battlefield, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as Tishana's Tidebinder remains on the battlefield.
- Power / Toughness – 3/2