Esper Cormorants
Artifact Creature — Bird
Flying
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #29213
Esper Cormorants is a 4/4 flyer for four mana — a statline that was passable years ago and is simply outclassed today. The artifact subtype and Esper color identity offer narrow upside, but nothing that justifies the slot.
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 |
Esper Cormorants is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Pauper, a 4/4 flyer for four is on the edge of viability, though it competes with more efficient commons at every step of the curve. In Commander, the artifact creature typing gives it a theoretical home in Esper artifact strategies, but the card does nothing on entry and nothing on attack beyond being a body — there are strictly better options at the same cost in every shell that would want it.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Esper Cormorants is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a box, not a deck. That price reflects its playability ceiling accurately, and there's no competitive demand to push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.