Ghostly Wings
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.
Discard a card: Return enchanted creature to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #20660
Ghostly Wings is a niche enabler — it gives a creature flying and a discard-to-bounce ability, which matters almost exclusively in decks that want creatures in the graveyard or need repeatable bounce on demand. The opportunity cost is low, but so is the ceiling; run it only when your deck specifically rewards both halves.
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 |
In Commander, Ghostly Wings earns a slot in self-mill and reanimator shells where pitching a creature to hand the enchanted permanent back is a feature, not a drawback — think Ludevic-style Izzet graveyard decks or anything running Threshold and Hellbent payoffs. Outside Commander, Ghostly Wings sees occasional Pauper play as a cheap aura in tempo and flicker-adjacent strategies where the bounce clause doubles as protection. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer the card is legal but effectively irrelevant — the rate is too slow and the effect too conditional against the speed of those formats. Oathbreaker follows the Commander read: niche, not useless, but only justifiable if the commander or signature spell directly rewards the discard.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Ghostly Wings is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a commons box without thinking twice. Price stability is essentially guaranteed in the sense that there's nowhere lower to go, but don't expect any upward movement absent a surprise reprint in a precon alongside a graveyard-matters theme.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.