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Syndicate Messenger

First printed in Ravnica Allegiance (2019)

All 4 prints

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Syndicate Messenger

Creature — Bird

Flying
Afterlife 1 (When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.)

"Many wings haunt the skies these days. Few of them bear good tidings."
—Lavinia

2/3

Illustrated by
Viktor Titov
Watermark
Orzhov

Legality

Ruling (1)

  • Because blockers are chosen all at once, you can’t block with a creature with afterlife, wait for it to die, then block with the resulting Spirit tokens.

Prices

Paper price: €0.04 / $0.04 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket, and TCGplayer, otherwise Mana Pool or Card Kingdom, through MTGJSON, 6 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 6 Nov 2026).

Combos

1 combo:

Limited On MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Syndicate Messenger in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Pioneer Masters (PIO), Premier Draft 54.7% -0.7 +0.6 11466
Pioneer Masters (PIO), Sealed 56.3% -0.9 -2.8 1288
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen