Astral Slide
Enchantment
Whenever a player cycles a card, you may exile target creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Vintage Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10855
Astral Slide turns every cycling card into a flicker trigger, protecting your creatures from removal and resetting enter-the-battlefield effects at instant speed for free. The cost is a three-mana enchantment that does nothing without a cycling-dense deck behind it — Gavi, Nest Warden is essentially the deck that makes this engine sing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gavi, Nest Warden
Gavi, Nest Warden makes the first cycling spell each turn free, which means Astral Slide is firing repeatedly without any extra mana investment — the two cards are a self-sustaining loop of protection, ETB resets, and free cat dinosaur tokens.
Sharuum the Hegemon
Sharuum the Hegemon treats Astral Slide as a repeatable way to blink Sharuum herself, retriggering the artifact recursion trigger to loop combo pieces or grind out incremental value whenever you need it.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Astral Slide actually lives — it's a role-player in cycling-matters builds, almost exclusively under Gavi, Nest Warden, and occasionally in blink-heavy Esper lists that want another cheap flicker engine. In Legacy, the card saw fringe play in dedicated Slide-Cycling control decks but has long since fallen out of competitive relevance. Vintage is technically legal but Astral Slide has no business there. Outside of Commander, this card doesn't have a real home in any current competitive format.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Astral Slide isn't currently available in our system — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. It's a casual-demand card with no competitive format presence, so copies tend to stay cheap; expect buylist prices to reflect that ceiling.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Gavi, Nest Warden
- Sharuum the Hegemon
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.