Aven Skirmisher
Creature — Bird Warrior
Flying
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fate Reforged
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #18302
Aven Skirmisher is a 1/1 flyer for one white mana — it attacks and blocks in the air, and that's the entire resume. A 1/1 for one is aggressively costed for Limited in 2005; in any Constructed format today, it does nothing that a more synergistic one-drop wouldn't do better.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aven Skirmisher is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is doing all the heavy lifting there. In Commander, a vanilla 1/1 flyer has no business in a 100-card singleton format where every slot competes against genuine threats and utility pieces. Pauper is the only format where one-mana flyers occasionally matter, but even there Aven Skirmisher's complete lack of abilities or relevant creature type leaves it well below the format's floor for playable white creatures. Across every other format it's legal in, it's simply outclassed by anything with even a keyword or an enters trigger.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Aven Skirmisher sits firmly in bulk territory — the price of a card nobody is seeking out. It won't lose value because there's nowhere lower to go, but there's no demand driver that would push it up either.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.