Is Aerie Ouphes good in Commander?

Aerie Ouphes

Creature — Ouphe

Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to target creature with flying.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

CMC: 5
Mana cost
Color identity: G
Rarity: common
Set: Eventide
Price: $0.23
EDHREC rank: #16864

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Aerie Ouphes enters, kills a flier, and if you have a +1/+1 counter on it — easiest with Renata, Called to the Hunt — it does it again on the way out. The cost is five mana for a 1/1 that trades for one creature; outside of dedicated counter and persist loops, that rate is too slow to justify a slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	legal
oathbreaker	legal

Aerie Ouphes sees essentially no play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern — five mana for conditional removal stapled to a 1/1 body is uncompetitive at those power levels. Pauper is where Aerie Ouphes has the most theoretical traction, since the persist-loop ceiling is reachable at common and flying removal is genuinely useful in the format. Commander is its real home, specifically in decks that can generate +1/+1 counters at scale and weaponize the persist trigger repeatedly as a combo piece rather than a fair removal spell.

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