Monastery Messenger
Creature — Bird Scout
Flying, vigilance
When this creature enters, put up to one target noncreature, nonland card from your graveyard on top of your library.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RUW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #20522
Monastery Messenger enters as a 3/2 with flash and produces a 1/1 Monk token on death — solid body, free blocker, and a two-for-one on removal. The catch is that it's white-only and competes in a slot full of creatures that do more for the same mana.
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, Monastery Messenger is a role-player in token and go-wide white decks that want bodies at instant speed — the flash lets you hold up interaction and still develop your board on your opponent's end step. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it simply doesn't clear the bar; three mana for a 3/2 that leaves a 1/1 behind is not a meaningful threat, and white aggro has far more efficient options at that cost. Pauper is where the rate is most honest — the flash plus death trigger is genuinely disruptive at common, and it can slot into white go-wide or blink strategies. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Monastery Messenger is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a buylist. The price reflects its limited competitive demand; it won't appreciate, but it also costs nothing to experiment with.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.