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Circling Vultures

Creature — Bird

Flying
You may discard this card any time you could cast an instant.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you exile the top creature card of your graveyard.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Weatherlight
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#24946
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Circling Vultures card art
Circling Vultures trades a discard cost for a one-mana 3/2 flyer with a relevant creature type, which is a real deal in any deck that wants fodder in the graveyard. Disa the Restless in particular turns that discard into a feature — you're paying one mana and a card to get a 3/2 in play and a card in the yard.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Circling Vultures is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the discard clause is a liability rather than a feature — those formats don't reward incidental self-mill the way graveyard-centric Commander decks do, and a vanilla 3/2 flyer for one isn't breaking any constructed format open. In Commander, Circling Vultures is a narrow but functional role-player: one mana for a 3/2 flyer is above rate, and any deck that converts discarded creatures into value makes the cost trivial.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Circling Vultures is deep bulk — grab a copy without thinking about it. Demand is narrow enough that the price isn't going anywhere, but it's also cheap enough that including it costs nothing.

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