Air Servant
Creature — Elemental
Flying
: Tap target creature with flying.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Welcome Deck 2016
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #26757
Air Servant gives you a 4/3 flyer that taps down opposing flyers on demand — relevant evasion and soft disruption on the same body. Five mana for that stat line and activated ability is fair in Limited but too slow and too small for competitive Constructed or most Commander tables.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Air Servant is outclassed before it hits the table — five mana buys you far more threatening flyers with better toughness, enter-the-battlefield effects, or built-in protection. The tap ability has niche value against heavily aerial pods, but dedicated blue decks would rather run a counterspell or a card-draw spell in that slot. Across Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, Air Servant never sees play; those formats move too fast for a vanilla-adjacent five-drop with no immediate impact. It's legal in Oathbreaker, where the same logic applies — the format is too compact for a creature this underpowered.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Air Servant is pure bulk — you'll find it in common boxes and draft chaff piles. That price reflects exactly what it is, and it's unlikely to move without an unexpected combo discovery or reprint in a high-profile product that spikes demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.