Roaming Ghostlight
Creature — Spirit
Flying
When this creature enters, return up to one target non-Spirit creature to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #26346
Roaming Ghostlight trades a creature you control for two 1/1 Spirit tokens with flying and hands you a card — net-neutral on board presence while replacing itself. At two mana it's efficient enough to slot into any blue-white tokens or sacrifice shell without a second thought.
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, Roaming Ghostlight earns its slot in token-doubler and sacrifice-value decks where converting one creature into two flying bodies plus a draw is a meaningful tempo play. Pauper is where Roaming Ghostlight gets genuinely interesting — at common, two-mana token generation that replaces itself is above the format's baseline, and flying tokens are hard to ignore in a format with limited evasion. In Modern and Pioneer it's outclassed by faster, higher-ceiling options, but it isn't unplayable in fringe synergy builds. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Roaming Ghostlight sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without hesitation if the effect fits your deck. Bulk commons rarely climb unless a specific deck breaks them, so treat this as a freely swappable role-player rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.