Saheeli's Silverwing
Artifact Creature — Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, look at the top card of target opponent's library.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- War of the Spark
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #26785
Saheeli's Silverwing is a five-mana 3/3 flyer that lets you look at the top card of your library whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control — reasonable body, reasonable ability, but five mana for this rate is a tough sell in any powered environment. It earns its slot only in dedicated artifact-storm or artifact-flicker shells where that triggered dig fires constantly; everywhere else, it's outclassed.
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 |
Saheeli's Silverwing is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it realistically sees play is Commander. In Pauper it's legal on rarity but faces stiff competition from cheaper, more efficient blue flyers and artifact payoffs. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage move too fast for a five-mana 3/3 with a soft value trigger to matter. In Commander, Saheeli's Silverwing finds its best home in high-artifact-density decks where the scry-adjacent trigger fires multiple times a turn, smoothing draws in a way that compounds over a long game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Saheeli's Silverwing is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not hunting it down. That price is stable simply because demand is narrow; it won't spike unless an artifact-centric commander pushes it into wider circulation.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.