City Pigeon – Marvel’s Spiderman
Date Reviewed: September 29, 2025
Ratings:
Constructed: 3.00
Casual: 4.13
Limited: 3.75
Multiplayer: 3.25
Commander [EDH]: 3.37
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is bad. 3 is average. 5 is great.
Reviews Below:
Pigeons are easy to underestimate. I’m not going to claim they’re the birds you want on your side in a fight, although there was a recent article about a woman who got in a life-threatening motorcycle accident after a pigeon accidentally bumped into the side of her head while she was driving. But for resilience and adaptability, they are nearly unmatched in the avian world. Modern human cities are about as far from the environments their ancestors lived in as it’s possible to be, and yet pigeons thrive there. They find a way to use everything we build to their advantage. I don’t think they could be removed even if you wanted to (why the heck would you want to?). So it’s fitting that City Pigeon here turns out to be a surprisingly useful and versatile card. Are you making a skies deck and need a one-cost creature? It can do that. Are you making a white Food deck and need a way to generate tokens for cheap, potentially multiple times? It can do that. Do you insist that your custom Jumpstart set has to have a few all-animal packs and need something with cross-synergy with artifacts? It can do that. Like its real-world cousins, City Pigeon may not be the strongest in a straight-up fight, but the number of environments in which it can exist is shockingly high.
Constructed: 3
Casual: 4
Limited: 3.5
Multiplayer:3.5
Commander [EDH]: 3.5
B I R D
Everyone’s favorite winged rats show up in full force in the suburban environs of Spider-Man, and while City Pigeon is hardly the most exciting creature, it has a couple bits of intrigue. It leaves behind Food when it leaves play…regardless of how it leaves play, which can make for fun if you have a way to flicker this or recur it. While a 1/1 won’t win any awards, Bird has a healthy amount of support as a tribe, and being able to have a cheap, evasive creature can do a lot of things. I feel like City Pigeon will find a home in certain combos, but if you want to get your swoop on, this is a cheap way to do so that has a bit of upside.
Constructed: 3 (not sure it has wings in Standard, but you can maybe make things work)
Casual: 4.25
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 3
Commander [EDH]: 3.25 (the toughness, power, and mana value have plenty of things it can make for combos with)
Now I want there to be a set that gives us pretext to have bin chickens properly represented.
Thijs
As you all know by now, I’m a pauper enthusiast. And pauper players are always looking for commons that may provide an edge. Cards that in other formats may seem completely redundant, somehow find a way to shine in pauper.
The City Pigeon might just be one of the cards to make it. These little lunch thiefs can be extremely useful in the right circumstances. A 1/1 flyer on turn 1 is good in any format, no matter what you play.
It also gives you a Food when it leaves the battlefield. This can either be because it dies or – and this is where my Azorius players will prick up their ears – because it’s blinked. Food tokens aren’t necessarily the bread and butter of functional tokens (like a Blood, Clue or Treasure) but may just give you an edge, like I said in the beginning.
Fly little winged rats, fly!
Constructed: 3,5
Casual: 3
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 3,5
Commander [EDH]: 3,5
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