Living Airship
Creature — Metathran
Flying
: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #30903
Living Airship is a 3/4 flyer for five mana — passable stats, unexceptional rate. Without an enters-the-battlefield trigger, a tribal payoff, or any other hook, it asks too much for too little in almost every context.
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 |
Living Airship is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but only Pauper gives it a plausible home — and even there, it sits at the shallow end of competitive blue flyers. In Commander, a five-mana 3/4 with no text competes against creatures that draw cards, generate tokens, or close games on their own, and Living Airship does none of that. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at any price. Pauper is the one format where raw flying bodies with reasonable toughness occasionally earn spots in skies-style decks, but the competition at five mana is stiff enough that it rarely makes the cut.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Living Airship is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box before you'd bother ordering it. The price reflects the card's utility accurately, and there's no scenario where it appreciates.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.