Evershrike
Creature — Elemental Spirit
Flying
This creature gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You may put an Aura card with mana value X or less from your hand onto the battlefield attached to it. If you don't, exile this creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Eventide
- Price
- $1.07
- EDHREC rank
- #25688
Evershrike is a self-recurring flying beater that can reach absurd power and toughness as long as you keep feeding it Auras — the ceiling is genuinely threatening, but the engine stalls the moment the board gets wiped and your graveyard is empty. Run it in dedicated Aura strategies; everywhere else, the setup cost outweighs the payoff.
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 |
Commander is where Evershrike is most at home, slotting into Aura-centric voltron decks that already want a recursive threat to keep pressure on opponents through removal. In Legacy and Vintage, it competes with faster, less conditional threats and the Aura-reload condition is too slow to matter in those formats. Modern gives it the most competitive non-Commander context thanks to synergies with cheap Auras and graveyard recursion, but it still doesn't crack established archetypes. Evershrike is legal in Oathbreaker, where a spell-slinger signature spell might enable the Aura condition, though that's a narrow build.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.07 cheap tier
At $1.07, Evershrike sits firmly in budget territory — easy to pick up without a second thought for any Aura deck. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike unless a breakout Commander list pushes it, so buy in whenever you need it and don't overthink it.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.