Elvish Skysweeper
Creature — Elf Warrior
, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature with flying.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #20388
Elvish Skysweeper trades six mana and a creature sacrifice to destroy one flier — the cost is catastrophically inefficient for what it does. There are better answers to flying threats at every point on the curve, and this one belongs in the bulk box.
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 |
Elvish Skysweeper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, six mana and a creature is an unacceptable price for single-target removal when Plummet costs one mana and does the same thing. In Pauper, where one-mana interaction is the baseline, Elvish Skysweeper is too slow to register. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient answers, and the activated ability will never be worth the setup.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Elvish Skysweeper is deep bulk — the price reflects demand, which is nearly zero. It holds no value as a trade-in and no value as a role-player; the floor is already the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.