Nael, Avizoa Aeronaut
Legendary Creature — Elf Scout
Flying
Domain — Whenever Nael deals combat damage to a player, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom in a random order. Then if there are five basic land types among lands you control, draw a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #19683
Nael, Avizoa Aeronaut puts a flying counter on a creature every time you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand — that's a repeatable evasion engine stapled to a two-mana body. The cost is near-zero: two mana for an effect that scales with every flashback spell, cascade hit, or impulse draw you execute.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Nael, Avizoa Aeronaut does its best work, slotting into any spellslinger or impulse-draw shell that regularly casts off the top or from the graveyard — the flying counters compound fast when your deck is built around it. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage the effect is too slow and too incremental to matter; neither format is looking for a two-mana creature that grants evasion one piece at a time. Modern and Pioneer are similar stories: the payoff requires a critical mass of non-hand casts that those formats don't naturally support, and a 1/3 body doesn't survive long enough to matter. Oathbreaker shares Commander's casual density of flashback and impulse effects, making it the second-best home.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Nael, Avizoa Aeronaut is deep bulk — you're picking this up out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a market. Bulk rares with narrow, build-around conditions rarely climb unless a specific combo breaks out, so don't expect appreciation, but at this price there's no reason to think twice about including it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.