Winged Shepherd
Creature — Angel
Flying, vigilance
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #19169
Winged Shepherd is a six-mana 3/4 flyer with vigilance and cycling — the cycling is the only reason to run it, and even then the bar is low. For one white mana you can pitch it to draw a card, which matters in decks that want to fill the graveyard or trigger cycling payoffs, but as a standalone creature it is thoroughly outclassed.
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 |
Winged Shepherd is a Pauper-legal common, and that is the one format where it sees any real consideration — cycling decks that chain draws and trigger cards like Astral Drift can use it as a cheap cantrip body. In Commander, the card is essentially unplayable outside of dedicated cycling builds led by commanders like Gavi, Nest Warden, where every cycler counts toward triggering free token generation. In Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage the card is legal but functionally irrelevant; far better cycling options exist at the same or lower cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Winged Shepherd is a bulk common with no meaningful price floor — expect to find copies in bulk bins for well under a quarter. It is worth picking up only if you are deliberately sleeving a cycling-matters Commander deck and need to hit a high cycler count.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.