Sky Tether
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has defender and loses flying.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #21802
Sky Tether neutralizes a creature completely for one white mana — no attacking, no blocking, no activated abilities. It's the cleanest cheap answer to commanders and utility creatures in white, and one mana is the right price for that kind of shutdown.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sky Tether punches above its weight: one mana to strand an opposing commander on the battlefield where it can't threaten you, dodge commander tax, or activate anything is a real deal. Modern and Legacy have access to faster clocks and more efficient interaction, so Sky Tether sits at the fringes there — it's outcompeted by Fatal Push and Swords to Plowshares in most builds. Pioneer is its best non-Commander home, where the removal suite is thinner and a one-mana answer to large fliers or value engines earns a sideboard slot. Across every format it's legal in, Sky Tether is a role-player, not a staple — but in white Commander lists that need cheap interaction, it earns consideration.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Sky Tether is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing for a legitimate piece of interaction. There's no price floor to fall through here, and playability in Commander keeps steady demand on copies, so the value proposition is straightforwardly good for what it does.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.