Skystreak Engineer
Creature — Human Pilot
Flying
Exhaust — 
: Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #25008
Skystreak Engineer enters the battlefield and immediately grants a target creature flying and haste until end of turn — the kind of on-board impact that closes games or forces through damage that would otherwise be chump-blocked. The cost is a three-mana 2/2 body with no staying power beyond the turn you cast it, which means you're essentially paying three mana for a combat trick stapled to a vanilla creature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Skystreak Engineer is a fringe inclusion — the effect is real but three mana for a one-turn buff on a 2/2 body is below the power bar most 100-card decks operate at, and dedicated haste enablers like Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots do the job repeatedly for the same or less mana. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it has no meaningful role; combat tricks at sorcery speed on a mediocre body don't make the cut when the format demands efficiency. Pauper is the one place Skystreak Engineer could see genuine play, where the commons pool makes a three-mana creature with any useful enters-the-battlefield effect more competitive and evasion is harder to come by.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Skystreak Engineer is pure bulk — you're acquiring it as a throw-in, not a purchase. That price reflects its power level accurately and is unlikely to move absent an unexpected breakout in Pauper or a reprint vehicle that spikes adjacent cards.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.