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Burdened Aerialist

Creature — Human Pirate

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever you sacrifice a token, this creature gains flying until end of turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#16594
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Burdened Aerialist card art
Burdened Aerialist enters with a +1/+1 counter and draws you a card — but you have to discard one, which makes it a looting effect stapled to a 1/1 flier with upside. The card selection is real, and it pairs with blink engines like Deadeye Navigator to loop the loot repeatedly, which is where it stops being a draft filler and starts being a combo enabler.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Burdened Aerialist is a Pauper-legal common, and that's its best home — low-to-the-ground blue decks that want card selection on a flying body will actually use it. In Commander, it only earns a slot in dedicated blink or +1/+1 counter strategies where the enters-the-battlefield trigger is something you're actively abusing. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the card is too slow and too low-impact for those formats. Oathbreaker is the same story as Commander: playable if your gameplan loops it, forgettable otherwise.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

No pricing data is currently available for Burdened Aerialist. As a common, it will almost certainly land well under $1 once prices settle — pick it up as a bulk inclusion if your blink deck wants the loot trigger.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.