Wild Aesthir
Creature — Bird
Flying, first strike
: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alliances
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #29872
Wild Aesthir is a 1/1 flyer with first strike for three mana — the stat line is unplayable in any competitive context. The effect is real but the body is not, and that mismatch sinks it.
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 |
Wild Aesthir is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Pauper, where commons compete on efficiency, a 1/1 first striker for three mana gets outclassed by nearly every creature at the same slot. In Commander, 100-card singleton raises the floor for what earns a spot — Wild Aesthir doesn't threaten the board, doesn't generate value, and doesn't synergize with anything that couldn't synergize with a better card. Legacy and Vintage don't want it either; those formats demand far more per mana than a vanilla-adjacent flyer delivers.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Wild Aesthir is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a trade binder filler pile. There's no demand driver that would push this above its floor, so don't expect the price to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.