Long-Finned Skywhale
Creature — Whale
Flying
This creature can block only creatures with flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaladesh
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27123
Long-Finned Skywhale is a 4/5 flying creature for four mana that can only block creatures with flying or islandwalk — a significant defensive liability that tanks its overall value. The payoff isn't close to worth it; there are cleaner four-drop flyers at every power level.
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 |
Long-Finned Skywhale is legal in Commander, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in essentially none of them. In Commander, a 4/5 flyer for four is a passable stat line, but the blocking restriction means it sits out most ground combats and telegraphs weakness in creature-heavy pods. In competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, four mana for a vanilla-adjacent body with a structural downside doesn't come close to the bar — those formats have Murktide Regent and Solitude in the same rough neighborhood. Oathbreaker shares Commander's casual space, and the same logic applies: you can do better.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Long-Finned Skywhale is deep bulk — the kind of card that sits in a box and never gets called for. There's no reason to expect that to change; the card fills no competitive niche and has no combo relevance to drive demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.