Isperia's Skywatch
Creature — Vedalken Knight
Flying
When this creature enters, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #26722
Isperia's Skywatch costs six mana to put a 3/3 flyer into play and detain one creature — a clean but deeply overcosted package by any competitive measure. At six mana, Commander expects either a game-ending threat or a two-for-one that doesn't wear off; this delivers neither.
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 |
Isperia's Skywatch is a bulk common in every format that will see it, and it sees play in essentially none of them. In Commander, six mana for a temporary answer stapled to a medium body is a losing trade against tables that refill threats every turn cycle. Pauper is the one format where a 3/3 flyer with a detain effect could theoretically matter, but the rate still lags behind purpose-built tempo commons at lower mana costs. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a six-mana creature that doesn't end the game on the spot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Isperia's Skywatch sits firmly in bulk-rare-bin-filler territory — it costs less than a sleeve. That price won't move; there's no competitive demand pulling it upward, and reprint risk is irrelevant when the floor is already the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.