Ascending Aven
Creature — Bird Soldier
Flying
This creature can block only creatures with flying.
Morph 
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #30469
Ascending Aven is a 2/2 flyer for three mana with a marginal combat ability — a rate that doesn't clear the bar in any competitive context. There are simply too many blue flyers that do more for the same cost or less.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ascending Aven is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Pauper, where the common-card constraint tightens competition, blue has access to far more efficient flyers, and Ascending Aven doesn't make the cut. In Commander, a 2/2 for three with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no meaningful late-game impact is filler at best. Legacy and Vintage aren't realistic homes — the card simply isn't in the conversation at those power levels.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Ascending Aven is deep bulk — the kind of card that exists in trade binders purely by accident. There's no demand driver that would move this price, so it holds its value only in the sense that zero is a floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.