Talas Air Ship
Creature — Human Pirate
Flying
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #29645
Talas Air Ship is a 2/3 flier for four mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no static ability, and no text beyond the creature types — a stat line that was underpowered at release and has only fallen further behind. There is no competitive context in 2025 where this rate is acceptable.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Talas Air Ship is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Pauper, a 2/3 flier for four mana competes against options with meaningful enters-the-battlefield effects or relevant creature types, and it loses that competition cleanly. In Commander, the singleton format demands every card pull weight across a 100-card deck, and a vanilla 2/3 flier at four mana cannot justify a slot. Legacy and Vintage have access to the most powerful cards ever printed — Talas Air Ship does not register in either format.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Talas Air Ship sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card that ends up in a collection binder, not a deck list. Bulk commons and creatures with no constructed application tend to stay at this floor indefinitely, so there is no financial case for acquiring copies beyond casual curiosity.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.