Wing Puncture
Instant
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature with flying.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #27059
Wing Puncture destroys a flying creature at instant speed for one green mana — that's an efficient rate on a narrow effect. The catch is the convoke condition: another creature has to tap to pay the cost, which means it's dead weight in any board state where you're empty-handed and behind.
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 |
In Commander, Wing Puncture occupies a niche that rarely needs filling — green already has access to Plummet, Crushing Canopy, and a dozen creatures that incidentally handle flyers, all of which do more work. Pauper is where Wing Puncture is most at home: convoke synergizes with go-wide token strategies, and budget removal at common rarity is genuinely scarce. In Legacy and Vintage it's a non-factor — the format speed and available removal make a conditional one-of like this invisible. The honest read is that Wing Puncture is a Pauper role-player and a Commander afterthought.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Wing Puncture is deep bulk — it will not appreciate, and there's no scarcity story to tell. Grab it for a Pauper token build if you need the slot; otherwise it's a draft leftover.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.