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Donal, Herald of Wings

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell with flying, you may copy it, except the copy is a 1/1 Spirit in addition to its other types. Do this only once each turn. (The copy becomes a token.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Crimson Vow Commander
Price
$1.32
EDHREC rank
#9414
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Donal, Herald of Wings card art
Donal, Herald of Wings turns every nontoken flying creature you cast into two bodies instead of one — a 1/1 Spirit token with flying appears alongside each cast, and if the original was a Spirit, the copy is a nonlegendary token duplicate of it instead. The ask is four mana and a fragile legendary body, but Cloudstone Curio loops and Millicent, Restless Revenant builds make that cost trivial compared to the board state Donal generates.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Millicent, Restless Revenant

Millicent, Restless Revenant

53.8% of decks · synergy 0.51

Millicent, Restless Revenant and Donal, Herald of Wings are a natural pair — Millicent's trigger creates Spirit tokens whenever your Spirits enter, and Donal's ability means every flying Spirit cast now floods the board with token copies that immediately trigger Millicent again.

02
Kangee, Sky Warden

Kangee, Sky Warden

25.6% of decks · synergy 0.23

Kangee, Sky Warden pumps all your flyers, so the free 1/1 Spirit token Donal, Herald of Wings creates on every flying cast represents immediate, cumulative power growth across the whole board.

03
Errant and Giada

Errant and Giada

25.0% of decks · synergy 0.22

Errant and Giada want as many Angels in play as possible, and Donal, Herald of Wings doubles the enter-the-battlefield count on every flying Angel cast — each one becomes two bodies getting Giada's counters and Errant's flash enablement.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Donal, Herald of Wings lives — a four-mana legendary demanding a dedicated flying or Spirit shell is precisely the kind of build-around that thrives in a 100-card singleton format with no clock. As your commander, Donal turns every nontoken flyer in the 99 into a two-for-one and scales exponentially with bounce or flicker loops. In Legacy and Vintage, Donal is legal but irrelevant — four mana for a conditional token effect is too slow and too narrow for those formats, and no competitive archetype wants it. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all non-starters by legality or design.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.32 cheap tier

At $1.32, Donal, Herald of Wings sits at the cheap end of legendary creatures with genuine build-around power, and that price reflects its narrow format home rather than its ceiling in the right deck. It's unlikely to spike without a reprint narrowing supply, but it's also not going anywhere — budget flyer and Spirit builds will keep steady demand on it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.