Dukhara Peafowl
Artifact Creature — Bird
: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaladesh
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #29211
Dukhara Peafowl is a five-mana 3/3 flyer that requires you to tap an artifact just to attack or block — a severe operational cost that most decks won't want to pay. Unless you're specifically built to exploit that tap trigger or need a redundant artifact creature for synergy counts, skip it.
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 |
Dukhara Peafowl is legal everywhere except Standard, but competitive play in any format has no interest in it. In Commander, the only homes are highly specific artifact-matters decks that need a cheap artifact body with evasion and can chain tap activations into value — even then, better options exist at nearly every slot. Pauper is the one format where budget constraints tighten the card pool enough to make a five-mana flying artifact creature worth a second look, but the tap requirement still undercuts its usefulness as an attacker.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Dukhara Peafowl sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to climb out of it. Pick it up only if a specific artifact-synergy build demands it — otherwise it's draft chaff.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.