Aven Gagglemaster
Creature — Bird Warrior
Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life for each creature you control with flying.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Core Set 2021
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #13625
Aven Gagglemaster enters and gains your team life equal to the number of flying creatures you control — in a dedicated Bird or flying tribal build, that's a meaningful cushion stapled to a 3/2 body for five mana. The cost is real: five mana for a 3/2 is below rate anywhere outside tribal synergy, and outside Kangee, Sky Warden or a Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker loop that resets the trigger repeatedly, the life gain is a one-shot bonus rather than a repeatable engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kangee, Sky Warden
Aven Gagglemaster slots directly into Kangee, Sky Warden's Bird-tribal gameplan, where a sky-packed board turns the enter-the-battlefield trigger into a massive life swing that can stabilize against aggressive tables while Kangee pushes the air offense.
Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested rewards stacking flyers, so Aven Gagglemaster's life-gain trigger scales naturally with the wide flying board Kastral wants to build — more bodies in the air means more life banked each time the Aven enters.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aven Gagglemaster is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive constructed formats have zero interest in a five-mana 3/2 with a conditional life-gain trigger. Commander is the only real home, and even there Aven Gagglemaster is a role-player rather than a staple — it earns its slot in dedicated flying-tribal decks where the enter-the-battlefield trigger reliably counts fifteen-plus creatures. Outside that niche, the card is too slow and too conditional to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror BreakerStaff of DominationTreasonous OgreAven Gagglemaster
Infinite card draw; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite red mana; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
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Kiki-Jiki, Mirror BreakerSword of the ParunsTreasonous OgreAven Gagglemaster
Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite red mana; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
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Kiki-Jiki, Mirror BreakerUmbral MantleTreasonous OgreAven Gagglemaster
Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite red mana; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinitely large creature until end of turn
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Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Aven Gagglemaster is bulk — easy to pick up as a one-of for a Bird tribal list without any budget concern. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow tribal applications rarely climb in price, so don't expect this to move.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.