Nimble Birdsticker
Creature — Goblin
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Core Set 2020
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #26683
Nimble Birdsticker trades a modest mana investment for a creature that punishes flyers on contact — solid in the right hate-bear slot, irrelevant everywhere else. If your meta isn't full of flying threats, this card does nothing.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Nimble Birdsticker is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its competitive ceiling is low across the board. In Pauper, where common-legal flying creatures like Faeries are genuine threats, it has the most plausible home as cheap interaction on a body. In Commander, the effect is too narrow — you'll hit a flying commander occasionally, but most tables run enough creature variety that a 2/3 with a conditional deathtouch trigger rarely pulls its weight. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for Nimble Birdsticker to matter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Nimble Birdsticker is deep bulk — the price reflects the demand accurately. Don't expect it to appreciate; pick it up only if you have a specific Pauper or janky Commander build that needs the flying-hate slot filled on the absolute cheap.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.