Faerie Swarm
Creature — Faerie
Flying
Faerie Swarm's power and toughness are each equal to the number of blue permanents you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #17326
Faerie Swarm lands as a flying beater whose power scales with every blue permanent on the board — in the right shell, that's a 6/6 or larger for five mana. Obyra, Dreaming Duelist decks hit that threshold fast enough that Faerie Swarm is a genuine finisher, not a novelty.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist floods the board with Faerie tokens, and every one of those permanents pumps Faerie Swarm — it regularly enters as a 7/7 or bigger with flying, closing games that the go-wide plan started.
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 |
Faerie Swarm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only meaningfully belongs in Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, a five-mana do-nothing-until-attackers-connect threat competes against formats that end games on turns one through three. Modern Faeries runs lean and fast; Faerie Swarm's payoff arrives too late to matter. Commander is where blue-permanent-dense strategies — tokens, Faerie tribal, mono-blue goodstuff — actually let Faerie Swarm scale into a legitimate aerial threat.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Faerie Swarm is deep bulk — no barrier to picking up a copy. Bulk rares with narrow homes rarely move off that floor, so don't expect the price to shift.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.