Skystrike Officer
Creature — Human Soldier
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.
Tap three untapped Soldiers you control: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #13059
Skystrike Officer turns every flying creature you control into a draw trigger, which in the right deck means drawing cards on curve without dedicating slots to pure cantrips. The mana investment is real — the activated ability costs mana each combat — but in a sky-heavy build like The Locust God, where flying tokens generate more flying tokens, the engine compounds fast enough to justify the 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 |
Skystrike Officer is a Commander card through and through — the payoff is incremental value that snowballs over a long game, not a rate that competes in faster formats. In Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, a three-mana creature that draws cards only when you activate it and attack with fliers is far too slow against answers that cost one or two mana. Commander is where Skystrike Officer actually functions: multiple opponents mean more combat steps, token synergies scale the draw trigger, and the board state to protect a three-drop long enough to matter is achievable. Oathbreaker could support it in aggressive flying shells, but the window to execute is narrower.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
The Locust GodIntruder AlarmSkystrike Officer
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite creature tokens with haste; Near-infinite ETB
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Skystrike Officer right now, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. As a non-mythic with a fairly narrow home, it tends to sit in budget range — worth picking up if you're building a flying-tribal Commander deck rather than waiting for a reprint.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.