Aven Warhawk
Creature — Bird Soldier
Amplify 1 (As this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each Bird and/or Soldier card you reveal in your hand.)
Flying
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Legions
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #28012
Aven Warhawk lands as a 4/4 flying vigilance creature for five mana — solid stats, but five mana for a vanilla-adjacent body is a tough sell when Commander is full of cards doing far more at that slot. Aven Warhawk is a role-player only in niche tribal or counter-synergy shells, not a general-purpose inclusion.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aven Warhawk is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, a 4/4 flyer with vigilance for five mana needs a tribal or +1/+1 counter payoff to justify the slot — without one, the card is outclassed by nearly every alternative at that cost. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect or combo relevance. Oathbreaker shares Commander's card-quality bar, so the same reasoning applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Aven Warhawk sits firmly in bulk territory — the price reflects its limited demand across all formats. It holds no value trajectory; pick it up if a specific deck needs it, but don't expect that to change.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.