Abigale, Poet Laureate

Abigale is a 2/3 flying Bird Bard for {1}{W}{B} that prepares itself whenever you cast a creature spell, allowing you to cast a copy of Heroic Stanza ({1}{W/B}: put a +1/+1 counter on a creature) once per creature cast. She is a modest counter-producer in creature-dense decks — best in counters-voltron or plus-one-counters shells — but requires a steady stream of creature spells to repeatedly re-prepare, and the Heroic Stanza copy costs an additional 2 mana each time, making the engine slow and mana-intensive.

• Heroic Stanza costs {1}{W/B} each time you cast a copy, so triggering the engine on every creature spell demands significant extra mana investment — this is not a free value engine.

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• Re-preparation is unlimited in theory (every creature cast triggers it), but since it's a sorcery-speed counter and you must pay the copy cost, it is much weaker than it looks at first glance — essentially a 2-mana +1/+1 counter stapled to each creature spell.

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• The prepared spell is a COPY, so it can never be interacted with in the hand or graveyard, and countering the copy does not stop the prepare trigger from re-enabling on the next creature cast.

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• EDHREC rank: #14,724