Eagle of the Watch
Creature — Bird
Flying, vigilance
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Journey into Nyx
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #25582
Eagle of the Watch is a 2/1 flier with vigilance for two mana — playable stats on a body that attacks and blocks in the same turn. It's a Limited card that never made the jump to Constructed relevance, and in Commander it competes against too many strictly better options to justify a slot.
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 |
Eagle of the Watch sees essentially no Constructed play — Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy all have access to far more efficient two-drop fliers, and the card doesn't show up in any competitive lists. Pauper is the one format where vigilance on a cheap flier has some fringe appeal in aggressive white builds, though it still sits below the format's better options. In Commander, Eagle of the Watch is too small to matter in a 40-life format where a 2/1 body rarely survives to turn four, and the vigilance upside doesn't scale the way it would in a 1v1 game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Eagle of the Watch is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box. There's no meaningful demand driver that would push the price upward, so don't expect the floor to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.