Setessan Skirmisher
Creature — Human Warrior
Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27139
Setessan Skirmisher enters as a 2/1 that draws you a card when an Aura enters your battlefield — repeatable card advantage stapled to a relevant body for two mana. In dedicated Aura or enchantress strategies, that trigger fires often enough to make it a legitimate draw engine.
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 |
Setessan Skirmisher is a pauper-legal common, and that's where it sees the most meaningful competitive play — enchantress and Aura-based aggro decks in Pauper can chain Auras and turn Skirmisher into a one-creature draw engine that's hard to race. In Commander, it slots cleanly into Aura-heavy voltron or enchantress builds, though it competes with more powerful options at the same slot. In Modern and Pioneer, the card is legal but too slow and fragile to compete; Aura decks in those formats want faster, more resilient threats. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the power floor is simply too high.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Setessan Skirmisher is deep bulk — buy a playset for the cost of a sleeve. Bulk commons with narrow applications rarely move in price, so don't expect this to climb unless a new Aura-focused mechanic pushes enchantress into the spotlight.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.