Ranger's Hawk
Creature — Bird
Flying
, 
, Tap another untapped creature you control: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #16644
Ranger's Hawk is a one-mana 1/1 flyer that tutors a basic land to hand when it enters — the body is irrelevant, the land fetch is the reason to run it. It's a bulk role-player in white weenie or go-wide lists that want cheap creatures with incidental value, nothing more.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ranger's Hawk occupies the low end of white's ramp suite — it replaces itself with a basic land, which matters in landfall builds or lists that want to hit every drop without spending a slot on a non-creature spell. Pauper is the format where Ranger's Hawk is most at home, slotting into white weenie aggressively as a one-drop that trades up through evasion and smooths mana in slower draws. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, there is simply no competitive case — faster, more impactful one-drops crowd it out entirely. The card is legal across nearly every format, but legal and playable are different things.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Ranger's Hawk is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a common box without thinking twice. That price is stable by nature; bulk white commons don't spike, and there's no combo or casual breakout waiting to move the needle.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.