Snapsail Glider
Artifact Creature — Construct
Metalcraft — This creature has flying as long as you control three or more artifacts.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27671
Snapsail Glider is a 3/3 flyer for three mana with a minor Convoke upside — passable stats, forgettable effect. It earns a slot only in dedicated Convoke or artifact-matters builds; everywhere else, better three-drops exist.
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 |
Snapsail Glider is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in almost none of them. In Pauper it's the most plausible home, where Convoke-based commons strategies occasionally want a bodies-matter finisher with evasion. In Commander, a 3/3 flyer at three mana is too small to matter in a 40-life format unless you're running a dedicated Convoke synergy engine. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the card simply doesn't meet the power floor.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Snapsail Glider is deep bulk — you'll pay more in shipping than card value. That price is stable by nature: there's no demand spike coming for a vanilla-adjacent common.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.