Magic: The Gathering

Air Elemental

Beatdown Box Set 1 • uncommon

Set: Beatdown Box Set
Collector number: 1
Rarity: Uncommon
Mana cost: 3 generic mana blue mana blue mana
Type: Creature
Colors: Blue
Artist: Doug Chaffee
Market price: $0.10

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$0.10market price via TCGplayer · Aug 17, 2026$0.10 – $0.33 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

This creature card from the Beatdown Box Set features artwork by Doug Chaffee. As an uncommon card, it holds a distinct place in this collection, representing a foundational element of the game's creature roster.

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Card face

What it does

Flying

As insubstantial, and as powerful, as the wind that carries it.

Formats

Where you can play it

StandardNot legal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperNot legal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal
OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

Where it came from

The Air Elemental featured in the 2000 Beatdown Box Set serves as a core representative of Magic: The Gathering's early design philosophy, which heavily leaned into the elemental archetypes established during the game's 1993 inception. This specific printing was included to provide players with a reliable, high-flying threat in the preconstructed decks designed for the Beatdown product, which sought to introduce new players to the game’s combat mechanics by pitting two distinct, powerful decks against one another.

Doug Chaffee’s illustration for this version emphasizes the creature's ethereal and fluid nature, utilizing soft gradients and translucent motifs to distinguish it from more grounded, metallic elemental depictions. As a staple uncommon, the card was widely received as a definitive blue creature, praised in competitive and casual circles alike for its straightforward efficiency in aerial combat and its consistent role in maintaining board pressure throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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