Eyes in the Skies
Instant
Create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying, then populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #16067
Eyes in the Skies puts two 1/1 flying Bird tokens on the board for four mana — acceptable rate on its own, and genuinely good when populate triggers off the second token. It's a niche card that earns its slot in dedicated populate or go-wide-with-fliers strategies and nowhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Eyes in the Skies is a Pauper card at heart — it shows up in common-legal token shells and convoke lists where four mana for two creatures with relevant creature types pulls real weight. In Commander, it's a fringe inclusion reserved strictly for populate commanders like Trostani, Selesnya's Voice or Ghired, Conclave Exile, where the second token serves double duty as a populate target. Anywhere outside those shells — Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage — Eyes in the Skies doesn't clear the bar; the formats move too fast and the rate is too fair to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Eyes in the Skies is pure bulk — buy the whole playset for the price of a gumball. That price is stable because demand is low and supply is high; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.