Owlin Shieldmage
Creature — Bird Warlock
Flying
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #27815
Owlin Shieldmage lands as a 3/3 flyer that hands out a +1/+1 counter and hexproof to another creature — real board presence plus protection on a single card. Five mana is the honest cost, and for that rate in Commander it's fine but never exciting.
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 |
Owlin Shieldmage is a bulk role-player in Commander, where five mana for a 3/3 flyer with a one-time hexproof grant competes against instant-speed protection spells and cheaper threats that do more. In Pauper it has the most potential, where commons-only card pools make the combined flying body plus counter-and-hexproof effect meaningfully scarce. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage simply don't want a five-mana vanilla-adjacent creature when those formats move faster and demand more per mana.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Owlin Shieldmage is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve. There's no financial reason to think twice about picking one up, but equally no reason to expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.