Welkin Guide
Creature — Bird Cleric
Flying
When this creature enters, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Eternal Masters
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #30072
Welkin Guide lands a flying and lifelink buff on any attacker the turn it enters — no setup, no waiting. Six mana for a 3/3 body plus a one-shot aura effect is too expensive to compete with permanent equipment or enchantments that do the same job every turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Welkin Guide is a bulk common that sees essentially no competitive play across any format. In Commander, where games go long and permanents accumulate value, a six-mana creature that staples a temporary combat trick onto its enters-the-battlefield trigger can't justify the slot. Pauper is the one format where aggressive white commons have a fighting chance, but even there the card underperforms — six mana is unreachable in most pauper aggro curves, and the buff evaporates after one swing. Legacy and Vintage have access to every card ever printed, which makes Welkin Guide invisible in those formats.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Welkin Guide is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box. There is no price floor left to fall through, and no competitive demand that would push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.