Aspiring Aeronaut
Creature — Human Artificer
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic Origins
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #22470
Aspiring Aeronaut enters and immediately puts a 1/1 Thopter token with flying into play alongside its own 1/2 flying body — two artifacts and two bodies for three mana. It's a fine role-player in artifact-synergy decks and essentially unplayable anywhere else.
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 |
Aspiring Aeronaut is a Commander card in the narrowest sense — it only earns a slot under commanders that reward artifact ETBs, artifact token generation, or flying creatures specifically, and even there it sits at the lower end of the power band. In Pauper it's at least legal and cheap, but three mana for a 1/2 plus a 1/1 token is outpaced by dedicated token producers in that format. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have no competitive shell where Aspiring Aeronaut clears the bar — the card exists comfortably at the Commander kitchen table and nowhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Aspiring Aeronaut is deep bulk — you're paying for a sleeve, not the card. There's no price floor to speak of at this tier, so grab a copy out of a bulk bin and don't think about it again.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.