Mistral Charger
Creature — Pegasus
Flying
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dissension
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #22374
Mistral Charger lands as a two-mana 2/1 flyer with no setup required — immediate evasion at a cost other white flyers charge you three or four for. In any deck that rewards having creatures with flying enter the battlefield, it earns its slot on stats alone, and Thurid, Mare of Destiny decks in particular treat it as a free trigger.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy

Thurid, Mare of Destiny
Thurid, Mare of Destiny cares about creatures with flying entering under your control, and Mistral Charger is one of the cheapest, most repeatable ways to fire that trigger — two mana for a body that immediately advances the engine without needing any other pieces in play.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Mistral Charger is a role-player, not a headliner — it belongs in go-wide white flyers decks or any build that needs cheap, evasive bodies to fuel an enter-the-battlefield or +1/+1 counter engine. Pauper is where it competes hardest: two mana for a 2/1 flyer is genuinely above the format's rate for commons, and aggressive white or Azorius skies decks can use it as a reliable early threat. Legacy and Vintage are too fast and too powerful for a vanilla-adjacent two-drop to matter, but it's legal there if a specific synergy calls for it. Modern has long since outpaced this kind of body, so you'd only run it to hit a particular tribal or ETB trigger, not for raw stats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Mistral Charger is bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. Bulk commons like this don't hold value and don't need to; if you want one, it costs less than a sleeve.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Thurid, Mare of Destiny
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.