Attentive Skywarden
Creature — Phyrexian Kor
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, transform up to one target Incubator token you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #13219
Attentive Skywarden puts a flying body on the board and generates Phyrexian Mite tokens whenever a creature you control is proliferated, turning every proliferate trigger into a board presence snowball. The cost of admission is steep enough that it only earns its slot in dedicated proliferate shells — most notably Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos — where the token generation is continuous rather than incidental.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos runs a proliferate-heavy engine by design, which means Attentive Skywarden is producing Mite tokens nearly every turn cycle — the card goes from a fringe flyer to a genuine token engine in this shell.
Elesh Norn
Elesh Norn's Replication trigger and accompanying proliferate synergies give Attentive Skywarden repeated opportunities to flood the board with Mites, and the anthem effect Elesh Norn provides makes those tokens immediately relevant in combat.
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 |
Attentive Skywarden is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander by a wide margin. In 100-card singleton, the card scales with the density of proliferate effects in the deck — in a dedicated shell it generates consistent value, and in a generic goodstuff build it's simply too narrow. Pauper is the one 60-card format worth mentioning: flying bodies with token upside can matter at common rarity, though the lack of a critical mass of proliferate support in that format limits Attentive Skywarden to fringe consideration. Everywhere else, the card doesn't have the raw rate to compete.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Attentive Skywarden is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not a singles list. Bulk rares and chase commons hold value; a card at this price tier is stable in the sense that it has nowhere lower to go, but don't expect appreciation.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
- Elesh Norn
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.