Storm Fleet Aerialist
Creature — Human Pirate
Flying
Raid — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it if you attacked this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #19857
Storm Fleet Aerialist is a 1/2 flier for two mana that becomes a 2/3 if you met the raid condition — a body that trades up in combat and dodges most ground-based blockers. The ceiling is fine for Limited, but the floor is a 1/2 for two, which is below the bar for Constructed.
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 |
Storm Fleet Aerialist is a Limited card that has never found a competitive foothold in Constructed. In Modern and Pioneer the two-drop slot demands immediate board impact — a conditional 2/3 flier with no enters-the-battlefield effect doesn't compete. In Commander, Storm Fleet Aerialist is too small and too fair to matter: a 2/3 flier on turn two does nothing to advance a synergy-dense 100-card game, and raid is trivially met but still asks you to attack first, slowing the payoff by a turn. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in a vanilla two-drop at any size.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Storm Fleet Aerialist sits firmly in bulk territory, and there's no pressure driving it higher. Bulk commons with no Constructed application and no Commander niche tend to stay at floor price indefinitely.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.