Take Flight
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has flying and "Whenever this creature attacks, draw a card."
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #17600
Take Flight lands on a creature and turns it into a flying attacker with a pump trigger on every subsequent cast — the ceiling scales directly with how many spells hit the stack. In enchantment-matters builds led by Eriette, the Beguiler, that aura slot costs you almost nothing to fill and earns incremental value whenever you keep slinging spells.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Eriette, the Beguiler
Eriette, the Beguiler drains opponents for each enchantment attached to creatures you control, so Take Flight isn't just a combat trick — it's a persistent drain counter that also grows the creature it's on every time you cast another spell.
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 |
Take Flight is a fringe card in competitive formats — Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have faster, cleaner ways to grant evasion, and no serious archetype is reaching for it. Pioneer is in the same boat: the aura slot is contested by stronger payoffs, and a conditional pump trigger doesn't close games at the pace the format demands. Commander is where it actually gets played, specifically in Orzhov or blue-adjacent aura shells where the enchantment subtype matters as much as the effect and cheap spells flow freely enough to fire the trigger multiple times a turn.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Take Flight is deep bulk — pick it out of any commons box for free. That price is stable in the way floor tiles are stable: there's nowhere meaningful left to fall, and no spike catalyst on the horizon.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.