East Wind Avatar
Creature — Bird Spirit Avatar
Flying, vigilance
Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #26113
East Wind Avatar blankets the board with a persistent tap effect that can lock down attackers, blockers, or utility creatures every turn. The cost is real — you need a critical mass of creatures to make the trigger worthwhile — but when it lands in the right shell, the on-board pressure is immediate and compounding.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, East Wind Avatar fits into go-wide strategies that can spread the tap effect across enough targets to matter — token decks and swarm builds get the most mileage. Competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage have little interest; the effect is too slow and too conditional against the fast, interaction-dense decks those formats demand. Modern and Pioneer are similarly cold: tapping creatures is not a closing strategy in a format full of planeswalkers, burn, and combo. Pauper is where East Wind Avatar deserves a second look, since the format's creature-heavy midrange matchups make repeated tapping genuinely disruptive.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, East Wind Avatar is deep bulk — you're not paying a premium for anything here. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point rarely hold or appreciate unless they see a sudden spike in competitive play, and nothing about this card's profile suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.