Skyrider Elf
Creature — Elf Warrior Ally
Flying
Converge — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Pioneer Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #24334
Skyrider Elf enters as a flying creature whose power and toughness scale with the number of colors you spend on its converge cost — pay all five mana symbols in WUBRG and you get a 5/5 flier for five mana, which is a legitimate rate. The ceiling is real, but the floor is punishing: in two- or three-color decks, Skyrider Elf is an overcosted vanilla that never competes for a slot.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Skyrider Elf is a Commander card through and through — five-color shells like Jodah, Archmage Eternal or Najeela, the Blade-Blossom can reliably hit all five pips and actually get the 5/5 body the card promises. In competitive formats like Modern or Legacy, converge is a mechanic that asks you to jump through hoops for a rate that dedicated aggro and midrange decks can match without the constraint, so Skyrider Elf sees no meaningful play there. Pioneer is theoretically legal but faces the same problem: the five-color mana infrastructure required undercuts any tempo gain. Stick to Commander, and specifically to greedy five-color piles where the mana base does the work for free.
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Price Context
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Pricing data for Skyrider Elf isn't available in our current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its narrow appeal — useful only in five-color Commander builds — expect a bulk or near-bulk price tag with little demand pressure driving it up.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.