Majestic Heliopterus
Creature — Dinosaur
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, another target Dinosaur you control gains flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Rivals of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #9183
Majestic Heliopterus hands flying to every Dinosaur you control — a combat-warping effect that turns a board of ground-pounders into an evasive alpha strike. At four mana for a 2/1, the stats are irrelevant; you're paying for the grant, and in any Gishath, Sun's Avatar deck that routinely dumps six-plus Dinosaurs into play at once, that grant closes games.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Gishath, Sun's Avatar swings as a 7/6 flying trampler and then populates the board with Dinosaurs that suddenly inherit flying from Majestic Heliopterus — the swing that triggers Gishath becomes the swing that wins with everything it cheated in.
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored cares about discovering into Dinosaurs and building a wide board fast; Majestic Heliopterus converts that width into evasion the turn it lands, letting Pantlaza decks bypass ground stalls that would otherwise stall out a go-wide plan.
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 |
Majestic Heliopterus is a Commander card, full stop — the flying-grant effect only scales when you control a tribe's worth of creatures, and no other format gives you that consistently. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, a 2/1 for four that does nothing the turn you play it is unplayable, and Dinosaur tribal never cracked those metas anyway. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; nothing is tutoring this out in a format with Brainstorm and Force of Will. Commander is where Majestic Heliopterus earns its slot, specifically in Naya Dinosaur builds that need a way to push through board stalls in the late game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Majestic Heliopterus is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a dollar bin or grabbing a playset for under a dollar. Bulk rares with narrow tribal applications rarely climb, so there's no reason to stockpile copies, but for the one deck that wants it, the cost is essentially zero.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.