Skyblinder Staff
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18362
Skyblinder Staff gives the equipped creature flying-blocker immunity — everything with flying can't block it — for one mana to equip on a one-mana artifact. It's a narrow evasion piece that earns its slot only when your deck is built around a specific ground-pounding threat that needs to punch through consistently.
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 |
In Commander, Skyblinder Staff sees niche play in decks that win through combat damage from a single large creature — Voltron strategies, infect commanders, or anything that needs repeated unblockable-style attacks against blue or flying-heavy boards. Outside Commander, Skyblinder Staff is legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them — cheaper and more reliable evasion options exist at every price point. Pauper is the one format where budget constraints make it worth a second look, but even there a ground-only threat wearing this runs into non-flying blockers all day.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Skyblinder Staff is deep bulk — it costs less than the shipping on a single order. That price reflects its reality: it does one specific thing, and most decks that want evasion find a better tool before they reach for this.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.