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Omen Hawker

Creature — Octopus Advisor

{T}: Add {C}{U}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
March of the Machine
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#5093
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Omen Hawker card art
Omen Hawker taps to produce two mana usable only on activated abilities — a Llanowar Elves that funnels directly into the stack, not your spells. The cost is real: the restriction locks it out of most ramp roles, but in shells built around ability activations, especially the Freed from the Real combo or Gogo, Master of Mimicry's copy engine, it's exactly the accelerant you want.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gogo, Master of Mimicry

Gogo, Master of Mimicry

74.0% of decks · synergy 0.71

Gogo, Master of Mimicry's entire game plan runs on paying activated ability costs repeatedly, and Omen Hawker converts a single tap into two activations worth of fuel. That's why nearly 74% of Gogo decks run it — it's not support, it's infrastructure.

02
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa

Kenessos, Priest of Thassa

53.0% of decks · synergy 0.52

Kenessos, Priest of Thassa cheats Serpents into play off a repeatable activated ability, and Omen Hawker lets you fire that ability ahead of schedule or multiple times in a turn. At 53% inclusion it's the go-to accelerant for the archetype.

03
Zevlor, Elturel Exile

Zevlor, Elturel Exile

31.9% of decks · synergy 0.32

Zevlor, Elturel Exile's copy trigger is itself an activated ability, so Omen Hawker's restricted mana plugs in cleanly where generic ramp wouldn't. It shows up in about 32% of Zevlor lists as a budget way to copy instants one turn earlier.

04
Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

28.5% of decks · synergy 0.27

Etrata, Deadly Fugitive relies on activated abilities to enable her infiltrate payoffs, and Omen Hawker provides the extra mana to chain activations in the same turn. It's in 29% of Etrata lists — low cost of entry, reliable contribution.

05
Jhoira of the Ghitu

Jhoira of the Ghitu

22.3% of decks · synergy 0.22

Jhoira of the Ghitu suspends permanents via an activated ability, and Omen Hawker covers that activation cost on top of whatever else you're doing that turn. At 22% inclusion it's a fringe include, but it shows up consistently in builds that want to suspend on curve and still leave up interaction.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Omen Hawker earns its keep — blue decks built around activated abilities treat it as a ritual that never leaves the battlefield. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively invisible; the formats reward raw mana production, and a creature that gatekeeps its output to activated abilities is too slow and conditional to matter. Modern and Pioneer are in the same boat — the card sees essentially no competitive play in either format because nothing there wants this specific restriction badly enough to justify running a 1/1. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it occasionally surfaces, for the same reason as Commander: planeswalker abilities are activated abilities, so the mana hits exactly where you need it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Omen Hawker is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow combo applications don't tend to spike unless a new commander creates a demand spike, so this is a pick-up-and-forget price.

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