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Aegis Sculptor TDM 0035 · uncommon

Aegis Sculptor · {3}{U} · Creature — Bird Wizard · Flying
Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile two cards from your graveyard. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. · Power / toughness: 2/3

Price: from $0.121 printing
Win rate: 53.9% GIH 13,379 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · 17Lands
Draft: ◆ Key pickThe warded flyer can grow at upkeep by exiling two graveyard cards. Preserve a key renew or recursion target when two less valuable cards can pay instead.
Job: Payoffs

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 7,206 wins in 13,379 card-in-hand instances.

12,879 distinct games · 4,795 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 8–May 14, 2025.

17Lands file dated May 19, 2025 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Play

Blue–Black · Blue–BlackBlue–Black plan →

The warded flyer can grow at upkeep by exiling two graveyard cards. Preserve a key renew or recursion target when two less valuable cards can pay instead.

How this changes your picks

Rules-derived

Take it when: Defend, fill the graveyard while selecting cards, and grow an evasive finisher. Green Sultai payoffs are optional splashes with real source requirements.
What to take next: Use Appraiser or Nightwatch to stock the graveyard, then exile two spare cards to Sculptor at upkeep. Keep recursion targets you still need.
Wrong pick: Nightwatch can cost four mana in blue-black because its missing green symbol accepts two generic. An ordinary Sultai spell does not share that flexibility.
Mana & splash: Keep the colored sources needed for early spells. A synergy payoff does not automatically justify a splash.

Support cards

Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.

Sibsig AppraiserReplace the creature’s card while putting another card into the graveyard. A renew creature or harmonize spell can make that graveyard card useful later.

Gurmag NightwatchIn blue-black, pay two generic plus blue and black. The entry selection fills the graveyard, but the card remains three colors with mana value six.

Caustic ExhaleBeholding a Dragon saves one mana. If you have no Dragon, budget two mana total; a Dragonstorm enchantment does not qualify.

One-pick Draft: The warded flyer can grow at upkeep by exiling two graveyard cards. Preserve a key renew or recursion target when two less valuable cards can pay instead.
Sealed vs Draft: The warded flyer can grow at upkeep by exiling two graveyard cards. Preserve a key renew or recursion target when two less valuable cards can pay instead.

Draft data

53.9%when drawn (GIH)

−1.2 pp vs 55.0% average · 13,379 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · average from 552,428 games

#180 of 252 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.2 on average (70,986 packs).

28 of 34 blue cards · 12 of 13 blue uncommon cards.

Taken at pick7.79,633 picks

Makes the deck56.3%9,633 picks with known usage

When played52.5%27,957.9 matchesBenched 54.9%
20,237.1 matches

When drawn53.9%13,379 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 8–May 14, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 52.1% · 5,091 instances
● Drawn later 55.0% · 8,288 instances

In hand 53.9% · 13,379 instances
Unseen in deck 51.7% · 16,369 instances
+2.1 percentage points when drawn

Compared with blue cards

Win rate when drawn53.9%13,379 instances28 of 34

Opening hand52.1%5,091 instances23 of 33

Drawn later55.0%8,288 instances29 of 34

In the deck52.8%30,144 instances29 of 34

Without seeing it51.7%16,369 instances27 of 34

Improvement when drawn+2.1 pp13,379 instances / 16,369 instances26 of 34

When benched54.9%20,237.1 matches13 of 34

Makes the deck56.3%9,633 picks with known usage24 of 34

Pick (last seen)5.270,986 packs18 of 34

Taken at7.79,633 picks20 of 34

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Leaves the Graveyard UG60.5% ◌177 instances

Blue–Black UB55.6%18 instances · under 100 Two Spells UR51.8%85 instances · under 100 White–Blue WU45.5%33 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (53.9% · 13,379 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Usually played with

Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.

Sibsig Appraiser13,871 games with both in the deck Dispelling Exhale10,914 games with both in the deck Ainok Wayfarer9,986 games with both in the deck

How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 29% of 252 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 8–May 14, 2025

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Regular printing

TDM 0035

$0.12 · foil $0.21

Prices

TDM 0035 · Regular printingListings ↗

Finish	Found in	Price
Nonfoil	Play Booster · MTGO Redemption	$0.12
Foil	Play Booster	$0.21

How to get it

A fixed card in MTGO Redemption. It is not a booster pull, so no chance is claimed.

Wizards · Collecting Tarkir: Dragonstorm ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in: Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration: Michele Giorgi, TDM 35 · Scryfall ↗
More like this: Blue–Black cards → · Regular printing printings →
Sources: Wizards · Collecting Tarkir: Dragonstorm · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗