Airlift Chaplain
Creature — Human Cleric
Flying
When this creature enters, mill three cards. You may put a Plains card or a creature card with mana value 3 or less from among the cards milled this way into your hand. If you don't, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #17618
Airlift Chaplain enters the battlefield and immediately converts up to three creatures in any graveyard into a +1/+1 counter on itself, doubling as a 3/3 flier for four mana. The body is passable and the graveyard disruption is real, but four mana for a conditional 3/3 is a hard sell when dedicated hate pieces do more for less.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Airlift Chaplain occupies the narrow space between graveyard hate and creature — useful in Angel or white-weenie builds that need both, underpowered everywhere else, since dedicated hate like Soul-Guide Lantern costs less and disrupts more. In Pauper, a 3/3 flier for four with any upside is worth a look in skies strategies, though the graveyard exile is less impactful in a format where the most dangerous graveyard decks reload faster than three cards. In Modern and Pioneer, Airlift Chaplain simply doesn't compete — the rate is too slow and the disruption too limited against formats that can rebuild graveyards in a single turn. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for the same reason, compounded by the existence of far more efficient hate.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Airlift Chaplain is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a casual filler piece without any financial hesitation. Don't expect that floor to move; the card sees no meaningful competitive play and its Commander demand is narrow enough that copies will stay cheap indefinitely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.