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Glint Hawk

Creature — Bird

Flying
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Scars of Mirrodin
Price
$1.24
EDHREC rank
#20859
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Glint Hawk card art
Glint Hawk is a 2/2 flier for one white mana — the rate is real — but it demands you return an artifact to your hand on entry, which is a cost only specific decks can flip into an engine. Outside of loops with Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle or artifact-bounce strategies, that drawback makes it a liability rather than a threat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Glint Hawk earns its slot exactly once: in dedicated artifact-recursion builds where bouncing a zero- or one-mana artifact is a feature, not a cost. Pauper is where Glint Hawk has seen the most competitive action, fueling Affinity and Metalcraft shells that want cheap artifacts cycled repeatedly through the hand. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power density to ignore it entirely. Modern has faster, cleaner options at the same mana cost. Glint Hawk is a narrow card with a real ceiling — it just needs the right shell to reach it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.24 cheap tier

At $1.24, Glint Hawk sits at the low end of the cheap tier, which is about right for a card with a narrow, combo-dependent role. The price is stable — casual and Pauper demand keeps a floor under it, but nothing is pushing it higher.

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