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Glider Staff

Artifact — Equipment

When this Equipment enters, airbend up to one target creature. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.
Equip {2}

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$0.25
EDHREC rank
#9553
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Glider Staff card art
Glider Staff hands every artifact creature you control flying and vigilance as long as you keep mana open — a static anthem effect stapled to a staff that scales with board width. It's a staple in Avatar Aang builds and finds a second life in Krark-Clan Ironworks sacrifice shells that want artifacts on the board before they're cashed in.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Avatar Aang

32.4% of decks · synergy 0.31

Avatar Aang cares about artifacts entering and existing, and Glider Staff's passive anthem means every artifact creature in the 99 becomes a flying blocker or attacker without spending a turn activating anything — it's a free upgrade to every board state Aang assembles.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Glider Staff is legal everywhere except Pauper, but Commander is where it earns its slot. In 60-card formats it competes against narrower, faster equipment that costs less mana to equip, and the static-pump clause only shines once you have a critical mass of artifact creatures — a condition rarely met in non-Commander singletons. In Commander the calculus flips: artifact-heavy builds like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Avatar Aang run enough targets that the passive anthem affects the whole board simultaneously, removing the per-creature equip tax entirely. Oathbreaker sees it in artifact-aggro piles for the same reason.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.25 bulk tier

At $0.25, Glider Staff sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without thinking twice. New-card prices often settle lower after initial excitement fades, but the Avatar Aang demand floor should keep this from hitting true bulk-bin irrelevance.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.