Shinen of Flight's Wings
Creature — Spirit
Flying
Channel — 
, Discard this card: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #28805
Shinen of Flight's Wings gives your entire team flying until end of turn — a combat trick that can push lethal damage over blockers out of nowhere. The channel ability is the whole point: you pitch it from hand for two mana and never need to cast it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Shinen of Flight's Wings is a niche but functional channel piece in decks that need a one-shot mass-evasion burst — token swarms and go-wide blue strategies get the most out of it. Pauper is the format where it's most at home competitively, slotting into tempo and skies strategies that want cheap, flexible ways to punch through stalled boards. In Legacy and Vintage it's strictly outclassed — the formats are too fast and the competition for two-mana instants too steep for a conditional effect with no body on board. Modern and Pioneer have enough cheap fliers and lord effects that you'd never reach for Shinen of Flight's Wings over a card that actually stays in play.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Shinen of Flight's Wings is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not card power. It holds that price floor comfortably because the effect is narrow enough that demand will never spike it, but it's also cheap enough that running one in the right Commander deck costs nothing.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.