Aven Augur
Creature — Bird Wizard
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands. Activate only during your upkeep.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Future Sight
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #26413
Aven Augur trades a 2/1 flier and a bounce spell for a single sacrifice — relevant interaction stapled to a body, but only if you're already running a sacrifice theme. Outside that context, a 2/1 for 2U with a conditional activated ability is undersized and overcosted.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Aven Augur earns a slot only in dedicated sacrifice or aristocrats builds where triggering the ability on demand matters — think Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver or similar sacrifice-reward commanders. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have no use for it; the rate is too poor to compete with the card quality those formats demand. Pauper is the most plausible non-Commander home, where a flying body plus disruption at common can occasionally show up in niche tempo lists, though Aven Augur still sits well outside the established archetypes there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Aven Augur is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. It won't climb without a sudden spike in sacrifice-synergy Commander decks, and even then the supply ceiling keeps it pinned near the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.