Aerial Caravan
Creature — Human Soldier
Flying
: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. (Reveal the card as you exile it.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.39
- EDHREC rank
- #29828
Aerial Caravan lets you pay one blue mana to look at the top card of your library and put it into your hand — repeatable impulse draw stapled to a 4/3 flyer for six mana. The total cost to run this engine is backbreaking, and cheaper, more efficient card advantage options make it hard to justify a slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aerial Caravan is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, six mana for a creature that requires additional mana investment each turn to generate card advantage is a losing proposition when the format is full of cheaper, unconditional draw engines. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a six-mana creature to matter, and Oathbreaker's lower life totals and tighter game lengths punish slow, expensive setups just as harshly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.39 bulk tier
At $0.39, Aerial Caravan sits firmly in bulk territory, which accurately reflects its playability. Don't expect the price to move — there's no emerging archetype that rehabilitates a six-mana creature with an incremental, mana-hungry ability.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.