Skyhunter Patrol
Creature — Cat Knight
Flying, first strike (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach, and it deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #22159
Skyhunter Patrol is a 2/2 first striker with flying for three mana — a stat line that was passable in Limited circa 2003 and has been outclassed in every Constructed format since. The competition at this slot is brutal, and Skyhunter Patrol loses that fight.
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 Patrol is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Pauper it faces white commons like Kor Skyfisher and Seraph of Dawn that simply do more for the same or less mana. In Commander, a 2/2 with first strike and flying is too small to matter — the format's 40-life totals and board states of 5/5s and 6/6s make Skyhunter Patrol irrelevant by turn four. Legacy and Vintage aren't even worth discussing for a vanilla-adjacent three-drop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Skyhunter Patrol is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box, not a deck slot. The price reflects the demand accurately: there's no competitive home pulling copies, so don't expect it to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.