Is Coastal Hornclaw good in Commander?

Coastal Hornclaw in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Coastal Hornclaw trades itself to grant a creature flying until end of turn — a narrow effect stapled to a 3/1 body for five mana that rarely justifies the slot. The exception is Lumra, Bellow of the Woods, where pitching a creature to the graveyard is a feature, not a cost.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	legal
oathbreaker	legal

Coastal Hornclaw is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in eternal formats has no interest in a five-mana 3/1 with a situational activated ability. In Pauper, commons need to pull real weight, and this one doesn't clear the bar. Commander is the only format where Coastal Hornclaw finds a home, specifically in self-mill or graveyard-value strategies that want cheap ways to stock the yard while doing something incidentally useful on board.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

3 decks

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods Springheart Nantuko Tireless ProvisionerCoastal Hornclaw

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite colored mana; Put all lands from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield tapped; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite untap of lands you control

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3 decks

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods Springheart Nantuko Lotus CobraCoastal Hornclaw

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite colored mana; Put all lands from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield tapped; Infinite untap of lands you control

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3 decks

Shifting Woodland Aftermath Analyst SpelunkingCoastal Hornclaw

Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers

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3 decks

Shifting Woodland Aftermath AnalystCoastal HornclawAmulet of Vigor

Infinite LTB; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce

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3 decks

Shifting Woodland Aftermath Analyst Tireless ProvisionerCoastal Hornclaw

Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Coastal Hornclaw isn't currently available, but as a low-demand common from an older set it typically shows up in bulk bins for a few cents. There's no reason to pay more than that.