Aven Brigadier
Creature — Bird Soldier
Flying
Other Bird creatures get +1/+1.
Other Soldier creatures get +1/+1.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $2.02
- EDHREC rank
- #17128
Aven Brigadier pumps every Bird and Soldier you control simultaneously, which is a genuinely powerful effect in a tribal overlap deck. The problem is that it costs five mana with a 3/3 body — you're paying a premium for a creature that dies to any removal spell before the pump ever matters.
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 |
Aven Brigadier is a Commander-only card in practice — it's legal in Legacy and Vintage but no tribal synergy deck in those formats wants a five-mana 3/3 with no immediate board impact. In Commander, it earns a narrow slot in decks that run a genuine mix of Birds and Soldiers, where the double-tribal pump scales with board presence rather than sitting as a vanilla anthem. Outside that specific overlap, a dedicated Bird or Soldier tribal deck is almost always better served by a single-tribe lord that costs less.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.02 cheap tier
At $2.02, Aven Brigadier sits in the cheap tier — low enough that the financial risk of trying it is minimal. It's a bulk rare that has never broken out, and nothing about the current card pool suggests that changes.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.