Coveted Peacock
Creature — Bird
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, you may goad target creature defending player controls. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #18236
Coveted Peacock forces an opponent to attack with their biggest creature every turn, which in a four-player game reliably redirects the table's most dangerous threat away from you and into someone else. The cost is five mana and relying on your opponents to have something worth redirecting — but in Commander, they almost always do, and Sygg, River Cutthroat turns every redirected swing into free card draw.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sygg, River Cutthroat
Sygg, River Cutthroat triggers off any opponent taking 3 or more damage, and Coveted Peacock reliably engineers exactly that by pointing the table's largest attacker at a different player each turn — a clean engine that draws cards without spending your own resources.
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 |
Coveted Peacock is a Commander card through and through — the effect only generates real value when there are multiple opponents, multiple threats worth stealing, and enough turns to compound the political pressure. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, five mana buys you a win condition, not a soft pillow fort piece, so it sees zero competitive play in either format. Oathbreaker mirrors the multiplayer logic of Commander well enough that the Peacock fits there too, particularly in blue-black control shells that want to slow the board without spending removal. Outside those multiplayer contexts, it has no functional home.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Coveted Peacock sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in and never think about the price again. Bulk enchantments with niche multiplayer appeal don't appreciably move, so expect it to stay in this range indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.