Battlefield Percher
Creature — Bird
Flying
This creature can block only creatures with flying.
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #30847
Battlefield Percher lands as a 2/2 flier with flash that creates a 1/1 Bird token whenever a creature dies — the kind of incremental value that compounds fast in combat-heavy games. The three-mana cost is fair, but the flash clause is the real reason to run it: you're dropping this at the end of your opponent's turn into a board wipe and walking away with tokens.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Battlefield Percher earns its keep — creature deaths are constant, flash lets you deploy it reactively, and token generation scales with board complexity. In Legacy and Vintage it's legally playable but never sees action; those formats move too fast and too efficiently for a three-mana 2/2 with conditional upside. Standard, Modern, Pioneer, and Pauper are all off the table.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Battlefield Percher is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bargain bin. Bulk flash creatures rarely spike unless they find a broken synergy, so don't expect price movement, but at this cost there's no financial risk to sleeving it up.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.