Harbin, Vanguard Aviator
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Flying
Whenever you attack with five or more Soldiers, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Brothers' War Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14316
Harbin, Vanguard Aviator turns a board of five or more Soldiers into a flying army with +1/+1 and evasion — effectively closing games that ground decks can't answer. Two mana for a 2/2 flyer that scales into a late-game anthem is exactly the rate a Soldier tribal deck wants in the command zone.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Harbin, Vanguard Aviator is most at home in Commander, where the 99-card format gives you enough Soldier payoffs and token generators to hit the five-Soldier threshold consistently and keep it there. In Modern and Pioneer, Soldier tribal decks exist but rarely want a two-drop that does nothing until you've already built a board — faster threats and more reliable lords crowd him out of the list. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the formats are too hostile to a creature that needs a critical mass on the battlefield before delivering a payoff. Oathbreaker is a niche home where his stat line and built-in anthem can close games quickly in a lower-powered pod.
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Price data for Harbin, Vanguard Aviator isn't currently available in our database, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for a live number. As a legendary tribal payoff with a narrow but devoted fanbase, he tends to sit in the budget-to-mid range — worth picking up if you're building Soldiers rather than speculating.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.