Aven Wind Mage
Creature — Bird Wizard
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Core Set 2019
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #22176
Aven Wind Mage pumps your instants and sorceries into a 3/3 flier the turn you cast them — relevant body, relevant trigger, reasonable rate for a three-drop. Outside of a dedicated spells-matter shell, though, the effect is too conditional to justify the slot.
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 Wind Mage is a fringe option in Pauper spells-matter aggro, where cheap commons that reward spell-casting can close games before the format's removal suite catches up. In Commander it needs a dedicated Prowess-style or Wizard tribal build — something like Adeliz, the Cinder Wind — to even warrant consideration, and even then it's competing against stronger payoffs at the same mana cost. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have access to creatures that do more for the same or less mana, so Aven Wind Mage never gets off the bench in those formats. Pioneer's higher power baseline pushes it out similarly.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Aven Wind Mage is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box rather than buy. There's no meaningful demand driver that would move it off the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.