Fleeting Spirit — ruling 1

If you activate Fleeting Spirit's first ability to give it first strike, you can later activate its last ability to remove it from combat after first strike combat damage is dealt but before normal combat damage is dealt.

Fleeting Spirit : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Fleeting Spirit is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

, Exile three cards from your graveyard: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. Discard a card: Exile this creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

How it works : Fleeting Spirit

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1November 19, 2021· Wizards of the Coast
If you activate Fleeting Spirit's first ability to give it first strike, you can later activate its last ability to remove it from combat after first strike combat damage is dealt but before normal combat damage is dealt.
No other card is named in this ruling.