Skybind
Enchantment
Constellation — Whenever this enchantment or another enchantment you control enters, exile target nonenchantment permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Journey into Nyx
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #11080
Skybind turns every enchantment entering the battlefield into a repeatable blink trigger — exile any nonland permanent your opponents control, and it stays gone until end of turn, which is often enough to win a combat step or a game. The catch is the four-mana setup cost and the dependency on a steady stream of enchantment triggers, which means Skybind is dead weight without the right engine behind it; pair it with Parallax Wave or a shard-spinning Niko, Light of Hope and it becomes one of the most oppressive lock pieces in white.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Niko, Light of Hope
Niko, Light of Hope generates Shard tokens as a core function, and each Shard entering the battlefield is an enchantment — meaning Skybind fires every single time Niko ticks up or creates a token, giving the deck a repeatable exile engine stapled to its primary gameplan.
Gylwain, Casting Director
Gylwain, Casting Director hands Role tokens to creatures as they enter, and since Roles are enchantments, every creature cast under Gylwain is also a Skybind trigger — the deck floods the board with cheap enchantment arrivals naturally, so Skybind slots in as free disruption rather than a build-around.
Daxos the Returned
Daxos the Returned creates Spirit tokens whose power and toughness scale off experience counters, and each token enters as an enchantment creature — Skybind stacks beautifully here, turning every Daxos activation into an exile effect while the growing token army closes the game.
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 |
Skybind is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero competitive play outside Commander. In Modern and Pioneer the four-mana enchantment-dependent trigger is too slow and too conditional against efficient removal suites. Commander is where Skybind actually functions: multiplayer games run long enough to assemble enchantment engines, the permanent exile hits any nonland target across three opponents, and the political disruption of choosing targets at will creates real leverage. In Oathbreaker it's a fringe include for enchantment-heavy signatures, but the 60-card formats have simply never given it the redundancy it needs to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Parallax WaveOpalescenceSkybind
Exile all creatures an opponent plays; Exile all creatures opponents control; Exile all creatures that enter the battlefield under an opponent's control; Exile all nonenchantment permanents opponents control each turn until end of turn; Infinite blinking; Infinite blinking of creatures and enchantments; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Lock; Mass Land Denial
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Skybind is bulk — cheap enough to throw into any enchantress build without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb without a reprint ban or a breakout combo discovery, so buy it for the deck, not the binder.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Parallax Wave
- Niko, Light of Hope
- Gylwain, Casting Director
- Daxos the Returned
- Opalescence
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.