Dust Corona
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #18061
Dust Corona enchants a creature and removes its flying while preventing it from being blocked by creatures with flying — a one-mana soft lock that grounds a problematic evasion threat or strands your own ground-pounder out of the air war entirely. It's a narrow enchantment that only ever solves one problem, and that problem has to involve flying.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dust Corona sees virtually no play because the format rewards interaction that generates card advantage or removes a threat permanently — paying one mana to temporarily inconvenience a flyer is not that. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a reactive aura with no immediate effect to matter. Pauper is where Dust Corona is closest to functional, since games can stall on board states where a single flying blocker or attacker dominates — but even there, better sideboard options exist. The card is legal nearly everywhere and meaningless in almost all of them.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Dust Corona is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in trade binders and draft chaff piles. There is no demand driver that would push this higher, so treat it as a throw-in rather than a pickup.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.