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Esior, Wardwing Familiar

Esior, Wardwing Familiar

{1}{U}

Legendary Creature — Bird

Flying

Spells your opponents cast that target one or more commanders you control cost {3} more to cast.

Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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FlyingPartner
Set
Magic Online Promos (PRM #86238)
Rarity
Uncommon
Mana value
2
Released
2020-12-15
Artist
Jesper Ejsing
EDHREC rank
#3,368
Colour identity
{U}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.35
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commanderPartner

Combos 1

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh+Esior, Wardwing Familiar+Skyfire Phoenix+Cloudstone Curio+Phyrexian Altar
{U}{R}
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggersInfinite storm count

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. Master's Councillors 100 %+99.6 %
  2. Lakeshore Apothecary 100 %+99.5 %
  3. Old Fat Spider Can't See Me 100 %+99.4 %
  4. Thranduil's Decree 100 %+99.3 %
  5. Ravenhill Flock 100 %+98.3 %
  6. Plunder the Trollshaws 100 %+98.2 %
  7. Uncover the Moon-Letters 100 %+98.2 %
  8. Confusticate and Bebother 100 %+98.0 %
  9. Dramatic Reversal 80 %+61.5 %
  10. Evolving Wilds 60 %+55.8 %
  11. Deep Analysis 60 %+54.8 %
  12. Quick Study 60 %+54.6 %
  13. Great Hall of the Biblioplex 50 %+49.8 %
  14. Futurist Forge 50 %+49.3 %
  15. Here Comes a New Hero! 50 %+49.2 %
  16. Brush Off 50 %+49.0 %
  17. Divergent Equation 50 %+48.9 %
  18. Tui and La, Moon and Ocean 50 %+48.5 %
  19. Pensive Professor 50 %+47.6 %
  20. Pym Particles 50 %+47.0 %
  21. Mirrorform 50 %+46.8 %
  22. Mathemagics 50 %+46.7 %
  23. Wan Shi Tong, Librarian 50 %+43.2 %
  24. Midnight Clock 60 %+40.8 %
  25. Skyblinder Staff 40 %+40.0 %
  26. Opportunity 40 %+39.6 %
  27. Sisay's Ring 40 %+39.4 %
  28. Opal Palace 40 %+39.4 %
  29. Artificer's Epiphany 40 %+39.4 %
  30. Exotic Orchard 40 %+39.2 %
  31. Sword of Vengeance 40 %+39.2 %
  32. Dazzling Denial 40 %+39.1 %
  33. Fortune Teller's Talent 40 %+39.0 %
  34. Ash Barrens 40 %+38.7 %
  35. Combat Tutorial 40 %+38.6 %
  36. Divination 40 %+38.5 %
  37. Into the Story 40 %+38.2 %
  38. One with the Machine 40 %+37.1 %
  39. Winged Words 40 %+36.8 %
  40. Desert of the Mindful 40 %+36.8 %
  41. Terramorphic Expanse 40 %+36.7 %
  42. Path of Ancestry 40 %+36.3 %
  43. Essence Scatter 40 %+36.1 %
  44. Command Tower 40 %+35.6 %
  45. Chart a Course 40 %+35.6 %
  46. Opt 60 %+35.1 %
  47. Fireshrieker 40 %+34.9 %
  48. Aqueous Form 40 %+34.3 %
  49. Brainsurge 40 %+31.5 %
  50. Pull from Tomorrow 40 %+31.0 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Plunder the Trollshaws 100 %+98.2 %
  2. Confusticate and Bebother 100 %+98.0 %
  3. Old Fat Spider Can't See Me 100 %+99.4 %
  4. Ravenhill Flock 100 %+98.3 %
  5. Master's Councillors 100 %+99.6 %
  6. Thranduil's Decree 100 %+99.3 %
  7. Lakeshore Apothecary 100 %+99.5 %
  8. Uncover the Moon-Letters 100 %+98.2 %
  9. Dramatic Reversal 80 %+61.5 %
  10. Island 80 %-13.8 %
  11. Opt 60 %+35.1 %
  12. Quick Study 60 %+54.6 %
  13. Midnight Clock 60 %+40.8 %
  14. Deep Analysis 60 %+54.8 %
  15. Evolving Wilds 60 %+55.8 %
  16. Sol Ring 60 %-24.6 %
  17. Reliquary Tower 60 %+3.9 %
  18. Tui and La, Moon and Ocean 50 %+48.5 %
  19. Wan Shi Tong, Librarian 50 %+43.2 %
  20. Great Hall of the Biblioplex 50 %+49.8 %
  21. Pym Particles 50 %+47.0 %
  22. Mathemagics 50 %+46.7 %
  23. Here Comes a New Hero! 50 %+49.2 %
  24. Brush Off 50 %+49.0 %
  25. Pensive Professor 50 %+47.6 %
  26. Mirrorform 50 %+46.8 %
  27. Divergent Equation 50 %+48.9 %
  28. Futurist Forge 50 %+49.3 %
  29. Fortune Teller's Talent 40 %+39.0 %
  30. Aqueous Form 40 %+34.3 %
  31. Propaganda 40 %+8.4 %
  32. The Water Crystal 40 %+29.4 %
  33. Bident of Thassa 40 %+27.4 %
  34. Skyblinder Staff 40 %+40.0 %
  35. Fireshrieker 40 %+34.9 %
  36. Sword of Vengeance 40 %+39.2 %
  37. One with the Machine 40 %+37.1 %
  38. Ash Barrens 40 %+38.7 %
  39. Winged Words 40 %+36.8 %
  40. Into the Story 40 %+38.2 %
  41. Artificer's Epiphany 40 %+39.4 %
  42. Pull from Tomorrow 40 %+31.0 %
  43. Counterspell 40 %-25.7 %
  44. Combat Tutorial 40 %+38.6 %
  45. Chart a Course 40 %+35.6 %
  46. Divination 40 %+38.5 %
  47. Essence Scatter 40 %+36.1 %
  48. Opportunity 40 %+39.6 %
  49. Brainsurge 40 %+31.5 %
  50. Frantic Search 40 %+8.4 %

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2020-11-10

    An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.

  • 2020-11-10

    Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.

  • 2020-11-10

    If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.

  • 2020-11-10

    If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can only include cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities. If Falthis and Kediss are your commanders, your deck may contain cards with black and/or red in their color identity, but not cards with green, white, or blue.

  • 2020-11-10

    Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won't have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined.

  • 2020-11-10

    Spells that target more than one commander you control cost only {3} more to cast.

  • 2020-11-10

    To determine the total cost of an opponent's spell that targets a commander you control, start with the mana cost or alternative cost that player is paying, add any cost increases (such as that of Esior's middle ability), then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

  • 2020-11-10

    To have two commanders, both must have the partner ability as the game begins. Losing the ability during the game doesn't cause either to cease to be your commander.

  • 2020-11-10

    You can choose two commanders with partner that are the same color or colors. In Commander Draft, you can even choose two of the same commander with partner if you drafted them. If you do this, make sure you keep the number of times you've cast each from the command zone clear for "commander tax" purposes.

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