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Hoverguard Sweepers

Creature — Drone

Flying
When this creature enters, you may return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.

CMC
8
Mana cost
{6}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Arena Anthology 4
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#22758
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Hoverguard Sweepers card art
Hoverguard Sweepers puts a hard lock on an opponent's hand the moment it connects — anything they're holding gets bounced back to their library until end of turn, which is a brutal tempo swing in any blue creature deck. The rate is steep at six mana, but Helga, Skittish Seer turns that cost into upside by triggering off the Sweepers' own high mana value.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Hoverguard Sweepers occupies a narrow niche: blue decks that want evasive bodies and can exploit the hand-disruption trigger repeatedly through combat or copy effects. Legacy and Vintage have access to it on paper, but six mana for a creature with no immediate board protection is far too slow for those formats — it never sees play there. Modern is similarly hostile; the card simply can't compete with the speed of the format. Hoverguard Sweepers is, in practice, a Commander-only card, and even there it needs a specific shell to justify the slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

74 decks
Helga, Skittish SeerChakram RetrieverHoverguard Sweepers

Helga, Skittish SeerChakram RetrieverHoverguard Sweepers

Infinite card draw; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Near-infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X in their mana cost; Return a portion of target creatures to their owner's hand

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6 decks
Helga, Skittish SeerMind Over MatterHoverguard Sweepers

Helga, Skittish SeerMind Over MatterHoverguard Sweepers

Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite untap of permanents you control; Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Near-infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X in their mana cost; Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce; Return a portion of target creatures to their owner's hand

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Hoverguard Sweepers isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Given its narrow playability and low demand, it almost certainly sits in bulk-rare territory — pick it up cheaply if the shell fits.

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