Halcyon Glaze
Enchantment
Whenever you cast a creature spell, this enchantment becomes a 4/4 Illusion creature with flying in addition to its other types until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #29389
Halcyon Glaze turns every instant or sorcery you cast into a temporary 4/4 flier — meaningful pressure, but only while the spells keep coming. Four mana for a conditional, non-permanent body is too slow for anything but dedicated spellslinger Commander lists.
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 |
Halcyon Glaze is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero play outside casual Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, four mana for a conditional enchantment that doesn't immediately impact the board is nowhere near competitive. In Modern, the rate is simply too poor — prowess creatures do the same "spells matter" work on a body that doesn't need setup. Commander is its only real home, and even there it's a roleplayer in heavy spellslinger builds rather than a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Halcyon Glaze is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. That price is a ceiling, not a floor; there's no demand driver that would move it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.