Bronzebeak Moa
Creature — Bird
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Masters 2017
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #23971
Bronzebeak Moa enters as a 5/5 for four mana whenever you cast a spell you don't own — a massive stat line that arrives for free on top of whatever spell triggered it. The catch is the dependency: outside of group hug, stolen-spell, or tempting-offer strategies, the condition never fires.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bronzebeak Moa is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander and nowhere else. In 60-card formats the trigger condition — casting a spell you don't own — is essentially dead text outside of fringe chaos builds, and a vanilla 2/2 for four mana is unplayable in Legacy or Modern. In Commander, specifically in decks built around casting opponents' spells (via Hive Mind, Possibility Storm, or tempt-with-treasure effects), Bronzebeak Moa becomes a repeatable threat that snowballs fast. Oathbreaker shares the same niche appeal but with a smaller card pool to enable it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Bronzebeak Moa is deep bulk — the price of a card with a narrow, build-around trigger and no competitive demand. It holds that floor comfortably; there's no pressure pushing it up, but there's also nothing to lose grabbing a copy for the right deck.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.