Aven Windreader
Creature — Bird Soldier Wizard
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: Target player reveals the top card of their library.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28708
Aven Windreader is a five-mana 3/1 flyer that lets you pay one blue to look at the top card of any library — a marginal effect stapled to an undersized body at a steep cost. Every format has better options at this slot, and Commander has dozens of them.
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 Windreader is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, a 3/1 flyer with an activated scry-adjacent ability competes against cards that draw outright, generate card advantage repeatedly, or close games — it loses that competition badly. In Pauper, where the card pool is constrained, the bar is lower, but a five-mana creature that doesn't affect the board and requires additional mana investment to generate any value still doesn't clear it. Legacy and Vintage don't even enter the conversation at this cost and power level.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Aven Windreader, but as a bulk common with no competitive applications, expect to find it in a penny bin or bundled in a bulk lot. There's no scarcity argument here — pick it up only if the deck genuinely calls for it, which it almost certainly doesn't.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.