Ringwarden Owl
Creature — Bird
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic Origins
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #26916
Ringwarden Owl lands as a 3/3 flyer with ward 2 — a body that demands a real answer — while also drawing a card the turn it enters. Seven mana is a steep ask, but you're getting a threat and a spell stapled together, which means it's never a dead draw late.
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 |
In Commander, Ringwarden Owl sits in the middle tier of blue card-draw creatures — it's not embarrassing, but it's competing against a deep bench of cheaper, more efficient options and rarely makes the cut in optimized lists. In Pauper, where every resource matters and common-slot card advantage is genuinely scarce, Ringwarden Owl is more interesting; a flying body that replaces itself at common is a real rate, even at seven mana in a slower format. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern effectively don't exist for a seven-mana vanilla-adjacent creature — those formats will never give it a turn to matter. Pioneer and Oathbreaker sit closer to Commander on the power scale, where the same ceiling-and-floor logic applies: playable in casual, outclassed in anything tuned.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Ringwarden Owl is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price is stable precisely because demand is low and supply is high; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.