Sunbird Standard // Sunbird Effigy
~$0.21 low · ~$0.28 high
Colorless. Artifact // Artifact Creature — Bird Construct
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #262 · Illustrated by Aldo Domínguez
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #262 · Illustrated by Aldo DomínguezWhat is Sunbird Standard // Sunbird Effigy worth?
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Oracle text
Sunbird Standard
Artifact
: Add one mana of any color.
Craft with one or more 
(, Exile this artifact, Exile one or more other permanents you control and/or cards from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
Sunbird Effigy
Artifact Creature — Bird Construct
Flying, vigilance, haste
Sunbird Effigy's power and toughness are each equal to the number of colors among the exiled cards used to craft it.
: For each color among the exiled cards used to craft this creature, add one mana of that color.
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Format legality
The only printing of Sunbird Standard // Sunbird Effigy
| Printing | Rarity | Non-foil | Foil | Cardmarket (EUR) | My collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Lost Caverns of Ixalan lci #262· 2023uncommon· Cardmarket €0.08 · €0.17 foil | uncommon | $0.21 | $0.28 | €0.08€0.17 foil |
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Card details
- First printed
- 2023
- Printings
- 1
- Mana value
- 3
- EDHREC rank
- #13,935 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
- Keywords
- Flying, Craft, Vigilance, Transform, Haste
- Artist
- Aldo Domínguez
What the codes mean
The small print at the bottom of the The Lost Caverns of Ixalan card (#262).
0262 · LCI · U · EN
- 0262Collector number: this card's place in the set list.
- LCISet code for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- UUncommon
- ENPrinted in English
How to read a Magic card: every part and code, on real cards.
Card breakdown
The parts of Sunbird Standard // Sunbird Effigy (2 faces), read from the The Lost Caverns of Ixalan printing. How to read any Magic card.
Sunbird Standard
- Mana cost
- What you pay to cast this face.
- Type line
- Artifact is the card type.
- Text box
- What the card does. Italic text in brackets is reminder text: it explains a rule and has no effect on the game.
Sunbird Effigy
- Type line
- Artifact and Creature are the card types. Bird and Construct are subtypes, after the dash.
- Text box
- What the card does.
- Power / toughness
- */*: power is the combat damage it deals; toughness is how much damage destroys it.
This printing
- Illustration
- By Aldo Domínguez. The art has no effect on the game.
- Set symbol
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. Silver means uncommon.
- Collector number
- 0262 = collector number: this card's place in the set list.
- Rarity letter
- U = uncommon
- Set code
- LCI = set code for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Language
- EN = printed in English
- Artist
- Aldo Domínguez, after the paintbrush.
- Copyright
- Wizards of the Coast's copyright notice, with the year.
Keywords
- CraftCR 702.167
- Defined in the Comprehensive Rules at the rule above.
- TransformCR 701.27
- Turn a double-faced permanent over to its other face.
- FlyingCR 702.9
- It can be blocked only by creatures with flying or reach.
- VigilanceCR 702.20
- Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.
- HasteCR 702.10
- It can attack, and use abilities with the tap symbol, the turn it comes under your control.
Rule numbers from the Magic Comprehensive Rules, version of September 25, 2026.
Rulings (5)
2023-11-10
You may exile tokens you control as part of the materials required. However, because they aren't cards and won't stay in exile, any abilities that refer to what you "used to craft" the back faces won't refer to anything.
2023-11-10
If the materials required include multiple objects, you may exile some of them from among permanents you control and the rest from among cards in your graveyard. You don't have to choose all permanents or all cards from your graveyard.
2023-11-10
If a card that isn't a transforming double-faced card becomes a copy of a card with craft, it'll stay in exile if you activate the craft ability. It won't return to the battlefield.
2023-11-10
The back faces of some cards with craft refer to cards "used to craft" it. This refers to the cards exiled as part of the cost of the craft ability of the front face. Those cards are considered to be "used to craft" that permanent as long as they remain exiled and the permanent remains on the battlefield, even if the permanent's controller changes or some of its characteristics change (because of a copy effect, for example.)
2023-11-10
The five colors are white, blue, black, red, and green, and as such, Sunbird Effigy's characteristic-defining ability can't set its power and toughness higher than 5/5. Similarly, Sunbird Effigy's last ability can produce at most five mana (one of each of color).
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