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Ominous Roost

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying and "This token can block only creatures with flying."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Innistrad: Double Feature
Price
$0.21
EDHREC rank
#18742
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Ominous Roost card art
Ominous Roost turns every card you discard or pitch into a 1/1 flying Bird token, which in the right shell is a repeatable air force with zero extra investment. The cost is real — you need a steady discard outlet or graveyard-feeding engine to make it hum — but pair it with something like Marang River Prowler or inside Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer and the tokens come fast enough to matter.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

17.5% of decks · synergy 0.17

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer discards nonland cards as a core function of his ability, which means Ominous Roost generates a Bird token on virtually every spell Oskar casts — the enchantment essentially taxes your own engine for free air presence.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Ominous Roost is a Commander card, full stop. In 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, three mana for a static enchantment that makes 1/1s is too slow and too conditional — dedicated discard payoffs in those formats demand immediate board impact. In Commander, the math flips: a three-mana enchantment that produces tokens across a long game accumulates real value, especially in discard-heavy builds where you're already moving cards to the graveyard every turn. Outside of dedicated discard commanders, the ceiling drops sharply, so slot it where the engine already exists rather than building toward it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.21 bulk tier

At $0.21, Ominous Roost is pure bulk — easy to acquire as a throw-in or from any bulk bin. Bulk enchantments with niche synergy don't tend to climb unless a commander spikes demand, so treat it as a low-cost inclusion rather than a card to stock up on.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.