Valkyrie Aerial Unit
Artifact Creature — Construct
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs 
less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying
When this creature enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #13377
Valkyrie Aerial Unit lands as a flying threat that scales with the crystals Golbez, Crystal Collector generates, turning a resource-accumulation engine into a board presence without spending extra cards. The cost is real — it asks you to be ahead on crystals to matter — but in the right shell it earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Golbez, Crystal Collector
Golbez, Crystal Collector's crystal-generation engine is exactly what Valkyrie Aerial Unit wants: every crystal Golbez produces feeds directly into the Unit's power and relevance, making it a natural payoff in a deck already built around that resource loop.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Valkyrie Aerial Unit is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander by a wide margin. In 60-card formats the crystal synergy is too narrow and too slow to compete — there's no reliable engine to feed it, and a vanilla-adjacent flyer at that mana cost doesn't clear the bar for Legacy or Modern. In Standard and Pioneer it's a playable role-player if a dedicated crystal shell exists, but that archetype has never been a major force. Commander is where the card actually functions: a 100-card singleton environment gives Golbez, Crystal Collector decks the redundancy to build a crystal engine, and Valkyrie Aerial Unit slots in as a clean payoff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Valkyrie Aerial Unit is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than order. Bulk rare prices this low don't tend to move unless the card finds a breakout competitive home, and nothing about its profile suggests that's coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.