Wing Commando
Creature — Human Soldier
Flying
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #23934
Wing Commando is a 2/2 flier with a battalion trigger that grants flying to your attacking creatures — solid in the air, forgettable everywhere else. Four mana for a 2/2 is a bad rate, and the payoff only matters if you're already running a wide, aggressive strategy that cares about evasion.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wing Commando is a pauper-legal common, and that's genuinely its best home — aggressive white or Boros battalion strategies can squeeze value out of the evasion trigger in a format where 2/2 fliers carry more weight. In Commander, four mana for this body is a non-starter; the trigger requires three attackers to matter, and by the time you're assembling that board state, you have better ways to push damage through. Legacy, Vintage, Modern, and Pioneer all have redundancy that eclipses Wing Commando at the same or lower cost, so it sees no real play in any of them.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Wing Commando is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a draft chaff pile, not a trade binder. There's no demand pressure to move that price, so don't expect it to budge in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.