#blinkmoth

Art by Sam Burley

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.