Keeneye Aven
Creature — Bird Soldier
Flying
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Vintage Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28086
Keeneye Aven is a five-mana 2/2 flier that lets you scry 2 whenever it deals combat damage to a player — a rate so underwhelming that it rarely earns a slot over cheaper, more impactful options. The body is too fragile to reliably connect, and scry 2 is simply not worth five mana in a format where draw engines do far more for less.
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 |
Keeneye Aven is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no play in any of them. In Commander, the combination of a five-mana investment and a damage-trigger payoff that only produces scry 2 is too inefficient — there are dozens of blue fliers at the same cost that draw cards outright rather than filtering. In Pauper, where commons compete fiercely on rate, the body is too small and the trigger too conditional to make the cut. Legacy and Vintage don't want Keeneye Aven at any mana cost.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Keeneye Aven isn't available in this snapshot, but as a bulk common with no competitive demand, it almost certainly sits at or near $0.10 or less. There's no financial case for acquiring copies beyond casual completionism.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.