Wingfold Pteron
Creature — Dinosaur
This creature enters with your choice of a flying counter or a hexproof counter on it. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #22880
Wingfold Pteron is a five-mana 4/4 with ward 2 and the ability to phase out at instant speed — a defensive threat that's genuinely hard to kill but deeply unexciting as a proactive play. Paying five for a vanilla-statted creature whose best trick is becoming temporarily untargetable puts it firmly in the niche pile.
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 |
Wingfold Pteron is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. In Commander, ward 2 adds meaningful friction against spot removal at low cost, and self-phasing protects it from board wipes — but five mana for a 4/4 with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no evasion is a hard sell in a format full of pushed five-drops. In Pauper, where the card pool is narrower and a protected body matters more, Wingfold Pteron is more plausible, though still slow. In competitive formats like Modern or Legacy, it never sees play — five mana gets you threats that end the game, not ones that survive it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Wingfold Pteron is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box at any local game store. Bulk commons rarely appreciate, and there's no combo or deck-defining role here that would change that trajectory.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.