Miner's Guidewing
Creature — Bird
Flying, vigilance
When this creature dies, target creature you control explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #10766
Miner's Guidewing puts a 1/1 flier on the board when it dies, which is exactly the kind of redundant aerial token production that flying-tribal and convoke decks want. The cost is a two-mana 1/1 with flying — a body that does nothing while alive — so you're running it purely for the death trigger, and that's a narrow ask outside of decks like Sephara, Sky's Blade that can exploit it immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sephara, Sky's Blade
Sephara, Sky's Blade can be cast by tapping four flying creatures, and Miner's Guidewing dying to replace itself with another tapper means the death trigger directly fuels Sephara's alternate cost turn after turn.
Odric, Lunarch Marshal
Odric, Lunarch Marshal distributes keywords across your team at the start of combat, so even a humble 1/1 flier token from Miner's Guidewing's death trigger becomes a flying vector that shares every other keyword your board is carrying.
Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested rewards you for controlling fliers, and Miner's Guidewing's death trigger ensures that when the Guidewing trades or gets picked off, it leaves behind exactly the replacement body Kastral wants to see.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Miner's Guidewing is a role-player, not a staple — it belongs in dedicated flying-tribal or convoke shells and has no business in a generic white deck. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, a two-mana 1/1 that replaces itself with another 1/1 on death is far too slow and low-impact to compete, and Miner's Guidewing sees essentially zero play there. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where cheap recursive fliers can matter, but even there the bar for two-mana creatures is high enough that Miner's Guidewing is a fringe consideration at best. Standard is the exception where context could make it briefly relevant if a flying-synergy archetype needs the redundancy.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Miner's Guidewing is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable by definition: there's no pressure moving it up, and it won't sink lower than bulk floor, so grab copies whenever you need them without a second thought.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.