Aven Fleetwing
Creature — Bird Soldier
Flying
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2012
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #22997
Aven Fleetwing is a 2/2 flier with hexproof for four mana — a statline so vanilla it barely justifies the slot. The hexproof matters only if you're suiting it up with Auras or Equipment, and even then, better targets exist at this cost.
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 |
Aven Fleetwing sees essentially no competitive play across any format where it's legal. In Commander, hexproof creatures earn slots when they're either cheap enough to land early or powerful enough to demand removal — Aven Fleetwing is neither, and a 2/2 body at four mana contributes almost nothing to a board state. Pauper is the one context where a protected, evasive body could theoretically matter in an Aura-based shell, but even there more efficient options crowd it out. Legacy and Vintage don't give it a second look.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Aven Fleetwing is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a trade binder pocket and nothing else. There's no demand driver that would move the price, so treat it as a filler common and don't expect that to change.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.