Ethereal Whiskergill
Creature — Elemental
Flying
This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #29876
Ethereal Whiskergill is a bulk filler creature with no meaningful competitive application — a vanilla-adjacent body at a cost that buys nothing you can't get better elsewhere. Pass.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ethereal Whiskergill is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Commander, the 99-card singleton format demands every slot justify itself, and a creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no evasion, and no synergy text can't clear that bar. Legacy and Vintage are brutally efficient formats where even powerful creatures fight for inclusion — a card like this doesn't register. Modern at least has fringe tribal and budget brews, but Ethereal Whiskergill offers nothing a competitive or even semi-competitive list wants.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Ethereal Whiskergill sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you find in a precon filler slot or a draft chaff pile. Bulk stays bulk; there's no demand pressure that moves a card like this, so don't expect the price to do anything interesting in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.