Aven Fateshaper
Creature — Bird Wizard
Flying
When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
: Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dominaria Remastered
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #23941
Aven Fateshaper puts a 4/5 flier on the board and lets you scry 4 every upkeep — that's a lot of library control stapled to a relevant body. Seven mana is the ceiling on what Commander will tolerate for this effect, and Aven Fateshaper is right at that edge.
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 Fateshaper is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower pace and longer games make a repeating scry 4 genuinely meaningful, smoothing draws over the turns it takes to close out a pod. In Legacy and Vintage, seven mana for a vanilla-adjacent flier is simply unplayable; neither format will ever cast this. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's DNA that the card is legal and theoretically functional, but the shorter game clock makes the upkeep trigger fire once or twice at best.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Aven Fateshaper is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box or a bulk lot, not a singles order. That price is stable by default: there's no competitive demand to push it, and it won't move unless a future printing puts scry-matters synergies in the spotlight.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.