Skyhunter Cub
Creature — Cat Knight
As long as this creature is equipped, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #24869
Skyhunter Cub is a three-mana 1/1 that becomes a genuine threat only after you equip it — meaning it enters the battlefield doing nothing and asks you to spend additional mana before it matters. In Equipment-heavy decks it can grow into a flying, first-striking beater, but the setup cost makes it a cut candidate in any list with access to creatures that come pre-loaded with keywords.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Skyhunter Cub sees essentially zero play in competitive formats — Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have Equipment synergies that demand faster, more resilient threats. In Commander, it fits narrowly into dedicated Equipment decks like Nahiri, the Lithomancer or Galea, Kindler of Hope, where stacking keywords on a single flying body has genuine upside, but even there it competes with creatures that enter with evasion already attached. Pauper is the most forgiving home given the shallower card pool, though aggressive white decks still tend to prefer creatures with immediate board impact.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Skyhunter Cub is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. There's no price pressure pushing it up, and it's unlikely to move unless a future Equipment commander sends players hunting for every flying synergy piece they can find.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.