Heron-Blessed Geist
Creature — Spirit
Flying
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying. Activate only if you control an enchantment and only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26174
Heron-Blessed Geist enters as a 3/2 flyer with lifelink and leaves behind a 1/1 Spirit token when it dies — two bodies and two rounds of pressure for four mana. That rate is passable but not exciting, and it only earns a slot if your deck actively rewards token generation or graveyard recursion.
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, Heron-Blessed Geist fits narrowly into Spirit tribal or token-doubler shells where the death trigger has multiplied value — outside those contexts, a vanilla 3/2 flyer for four is below the power floor. Pauper is where the card sees the most legitimate consideration: the combination of a relevant body, evasion, lifelink, and a built-in two-for-one is genuinely competitive at common rarity. In Modern and Pioneer the rate is too slow and too fragile to matter, and Legacy and Vintage simply have no use for it. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander — synergy-dependent, otherwise skip.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Heron-Blessed Geist is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing else. Bulk commons rarely move unless a deck breaks them in a competitive format, and nothing on the horizon suggests that fate for this card.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.