Riverwheel Aerialists
Creature — Djinn Monk
Flying
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27211
Riverwheel Aerialists is a 5/4 flyer with prowess for five mana — a decent body, but five mana is where the bar gets high and this card doesn't clear it. Casual blue-tempo shells are the only home where it earns a slot.
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 |
Riverwheel Aerialists is a pauper-legal card, and that's where it comes closest to relevance — blue prowess builds at common can squeeze value out of a 5/4 flyer that grows on each noncreature spell. In Commander, five mana for a vanilla-adjacent threat with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no immediate board impact is a steep ask; the format's power ceiling is simply too high. Across Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, faster and more efficient threats make Riverwheel Aerialists unplayable at the competitive level.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Riverwheel Aerialists is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not card. That price is stable because demand is essentially zero, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.