Mechanical Glider
Artifact — Equipment
When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature has flying. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
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(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #14367
Mechanical Glider is a 2/2 flyer for three mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no text beyond flying, and no reason to run it over Ornithopter of Paradise, Wind-Scarred Crag, or any other artifact creature that does something. The rate is simply too poor for Commander, where every slot competes against cards that generate actual value.
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 |
Mechanical Glider is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a vanilla 2/2 flyer for three is well below the power floor — you need your three-drops to ramp, draw, remove, or combo. Pauper is the only format where Mechanical Glider could theoretically see a table, but even there aggressive blue or artifact synergy decks have better options at common. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at any price.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
Mechanical Glider sits at $0.10, firmly bulk, and that price reflects its playability ceiling accurately. Don't expect movement — bulk vanilla creatures don't recover value unless a future mechanic makes 'Mechanical' or 'Glider' a meaningful subtype, which is speculation, not analysis.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.