Zephyr Spirit
Creature — Spirit
When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.02
- EDHREC rank
- #29820
Zephyr Spirit bounces itself to hand to counter a spell targeting it — a one-time ward effect that costs you your turn's worth of board presence. Bulk rare territory: the protection is narrow, the tempo loss is real, and almost every blue deck has better options.
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 |
Zephyr Spirit is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, the self-bounce clause reads as a single-use ward on a vanilla 3/4 body — that's not enough to justify a slot when blue has access to Swiftfoot Boots effects and actual counterspells. In Pauper it's at common parity on rate but loses out to creatures with more relevant abilities. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana do-little spirit.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.02 bulk tier
At $0.02, Zephyr Spirit is deep bulk — the kind of card that makes it into binders and trade piles without ever making it into decks. That price is stable because demand is effectively zero, not because supply is scarce.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.