Is Swift Warkite good in Commander?

Swift Warkite

Creature — Dragon

Flying
When this creature enters, you may put a creature card with mana value 3 or less from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.

CMC: 6
Mana cost
Color identity: BR
Rarity: uncommon
Set: Dragons of Tarkir
Price: $0.19
EDHREC rank: #21276

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Swift Warkite enters swinging — a 3/3 flyer that cheats a creature with mana value three or less into play from your hand or graveyard with haste, then bounces it at end of turn. The six-mana cost is steep, but the enter-the-battlefield abuse it enables, especially with a card like Activated Sleeper, makes it a legitimate engine piece in the right shell.

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

Swift Warkite is a Commander card through and through — the formats where you can build around a single enter-the-battlefield trigger repeatedly are where it earns its slot. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but effectively invisible; six mana for a situational reanimation effect doesn't compete in those environments. Commander is where Swift Warkite finds a home, slotting into Rakdos or Mardu shells that want repeated ETB triggers or sacrifice fodder on demand.

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