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Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard

Creature — Bird Pilot // Instant

Flash
Flying, vigilance
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$0.94
EDHREC rank
#15162
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Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard card art
Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard puts a 3/3 flyer on board and staples a free blink trigger to every noncreature spell you cast — that's an absurd rate for three mana. Decks already running Displacer Kitten know the ceiling here; Kykar, Zephyr Awakener lists are picking it up at over 32% inclusion because the combination of token generation and repeated enter-the-battlefield triggers snowballs immediately.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kykar, Zephyr Awakener

Kykar, Zephyr Awakener

32.5% of decks · synergy 0.28

Kykar, Zephyr Awakener creates a Spirit token every time you cast a noncreature spell, which means Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard's blink trigger fires on the same cast that produces that token — you get the ETB value and a 1/1 flyer in the same breath, and the engine compounds with every draw or ritual spell you fire off afterward.

02
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's WardCandlekeep Sage

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward // Candlekeep Sage

30.7% of decks · synergy 0.26

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward // Candlekeep Sage is built around flickering your own permanents for enters-the-battlefield value, and Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard converts every noncreature spell into a free flicker trigger, effectively turning your entire spell suite into an Abdel activation engine.

03
Plagon, Lord of the Beach

Plagon, Lord of the Beach

29.7% of decks · synergy 0.25

Plagon, Lord of the Beach cares about tokens and repeated untap or blink loops, and Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard slots in as a noncreature-spell-triggered blink engine that fuels those loops without requiring a dedicated combo piece.

04
Yorion, Sky Nomad

Yorion, Sky Nomad

24.3% of decks · synergy 0.19

Yorion, Sky Nomad decks are already maximizing ETB triggers across a large card pool, and Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard gives those decks a redundant blink engine that operates off the spell stack rather than the combat step.

05
Niko, Light of Hope

Niko, Light of Hope

22.4% of decks · synergy 0.18

Niko, Light of Hope generates Shard tokens and cares about flicker and blink interactions, and Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard slots cleanly into that gameplan by adding a second source of blink triggers that doesn't compete with Niko's own activations.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard does its best work — 100-card decks are dense with noncreature spells, and the repeated free blink trigger on a three-mana flying body generates compounding value that slower formats reward. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the card is legal but faces a steep bar: three mana for a 3/3 and a conditional ETB trigger doesn't survive contact with the pace of those formats unless you're specifically building around it. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more redundant blink engines that make Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard redundant rather than essential. Standard is the one exception where the lack of competing options might carve out a niche for blink-matters brews. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic at a smaller scale and is a reasonable home if your planeswalker and signature spell generate noncreature spell volume.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.94 bulk tier

At $0.94, Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard sits at the top of bulk pricing — cheap enough to throw into any blink deck without hesitation, but new enough that supply hasn't fully bottomed out yet. Pick it up now if the deck wants it; there's no meaningful financial risk at this price point.

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