Wings of Hubris
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has flying.
Sacrifice this Equipment: Equipped creature can't be blocked this turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #14591
Wings of Hubris gives any creature flying and +1/+0 for one mana, then kills it as a bonus when the equipped creature dies — a built-in sacrifice outlet stapled to an evasion buff. It's a niche card that earns its slot only in decks that want creatures to die on demand; everywhere else, it's outclassed by equipment that doesn't destroy what it's attached to.
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 |
In Commander, Wings of Hubris is a one-mana enabler for sacrifice-matters strategies — Aristocrats builds, death-trigger engines, or any commander that needs a creature to reach the red zone and then disappear cleanly. It sees essentially no play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage, where the sacrifice rider is a liability rather than a feature and better one-mana equipment exists. Pauper is the one competitive format where budget sacrifice synergies are real, and Wings of Hubris is at least worth considering in common-legal Aristocrats shells. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in its relevance: situational, but genuinely useful if the planeswalker at the helm cares about deaths.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Wings of Hubris is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar bin, not tracking it down. That price is stable because demand is narrow; it won't spike unless a high-profile sacrifice commander drags it into the spotlight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.