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Skyblade's Boon

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.
{2}{W}: Return Skyblade's Boon to its owner's hand. Activate only if Skyblade's Boon is on the battlefield or in your graveyard.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Modern Horizons 2
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#13790
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Skyblade's Boon card art
Skyblade's Boon turns any creature into a persistent flying threat for just one white mana, and its ability to re-enchant after a bounce means it dodges the biggest weakness of auras. In Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor and Displacer Kitten builds it pulls double duty — cheap enchantment that reattaches itself and keeps the chain moving.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor

Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor

15.8% of decks · synergy 0.15

Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor triggers off every spell you cast, and Skyblade's Boon's built-in reattach ability means a single copy can fire that trigger repeatedly across a game rather than rotting in hand after a board wipe.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Skyblade's Boon is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. In longer games the reattach clause pays off in ways it never gets to in faster formats — Legacy and Modern are over before you loop it twice. In Commander it fits tightest in flicker and enchantress strategies, where the recursive nature compounds value rather than just adding a keyword.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Skyblade's Boon is deep bulk — you're not paying a premium for anything here. Bulk enchantments with narrow combo upside rarely climb unless they show up in a breakout list, so treat it as a cheap pickup for the decks that want it and nothing more.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.