Aven Trooper
Creature — Bird Soldier
Flying
, Discard a card: This creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #30251
Aven Trooper is a four-mana 1/1 flyer that can pump its power and toughness by discarding cards — a terrible rate in any format where card advantage is scarce. The discard cost compounds the inefficiency: you're spending mana and cards to grow a body that starts too small to matter.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aven Trooper sees no meaningful play across any format where it's legal. In Commander, a 1/1 for four is unplayable on rate alone, and the discard-to-pump ability runs directly against the card-hungry nature of 100-card singleton. In Pauper, where commons compete on efficiency, Aven Trooper is outclassed by nearly every other flying creature at the same cost. Legacy and Vintage have no reason to look at it. There is no shell where Aven Trooper earns a slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Aven Trooper is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box and put back. That price won't move; there's no demand driver on the horizon.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.