Illuminated Wings
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.
, Sacrifice this Aura: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Destiny
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #29983
Illuminated Wings gives a creature flying and lifelink for one blue mana as a bestow Aura, and when it falls off the creature it becomes a 1/1 flier itself — so you're never fully card-disadvantaged. It's a role-player, not a headliner, and its home is narrow: decks that specifically reward enchantments entering the battlefield or care about Auras.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Illuminated Wings earns its slot only in dedicated enchantress or Aura-matters builds — think Siona, Captain of the Pyleas or Uril, the Miststalker — where the enter-the-battlefield trigger or the raw enchantment count matters more than the pump effect. In Pauper, the bestow mechanic's inherent card-neutrality on removal makes Illuminated Wings a reasonable inclusion in blue-white tempo lists looking for a resilient threat that dodges one-for-one trades. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — the effect is too modest for those formats' power density, and no competitive archetype there is hunting for cheap bestow Auras. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: format-specific synergy decks only.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Illuminated Wings is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a commons box rather than order individually. Price stability is essentially a non-question: it's cheap enough to grab when you need it and not worth tracking.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.