Daggersail Aeronaut
Creature — Goblin
During your turn, this creature has flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Core Set 2020
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #23665
Daggersail Aeronaut is a 2/1 flyer with upside — it gains flying permanently once you have three or more artifacts, which in the right shell happens as early as turn two. The cost is real: outside artifact-heavy builds, it's a vanilla 2/1 with a condition that never fires.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Daggersail Aeronaut is a Pauper card first and foremost — artifact-synergy decks there can reliably turn on the flying condition by turn two, and a 2/1 flyer for two is a legitimate clock at that power level. In Modern and Pioneer, the competition at two mana is steep enough that a conditional flyer doesn't make the cut outside of dedicated artifact shells, and even there better options exist. Commander is the worst home for it: a 2/1 body doesn't survive a single board wipe and doesn't generate value when it dies, so unless you're running a low-powered artifact token build that specifically wants cheap early air, Daggersail Aeronaut belongs elsewhere.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Daggersail Aeronaut is deep bulk — buy a playset for the price of a gumball. There's no meaningful price floor to protect here, and no realistic scenario where demand pushes this above bulk rares territory.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.