Royal Falcon
Creature — Bird
Flying
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Starter 2000
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #29729
Royal Falcon is a 1/1 flyer for two mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no keywords beyond flying, and no text — a vanishingly small body at a cost that buys real threats in every format it's legal in. There is no shell where Royal Falcon is the right card for this slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Royal Falcon is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, a 1/1 flyer for two does nothing — the format's threat density makes Royal Falcon irrelevant on arrival. Pauper is the only format where one-drop and two-drop flyers see genuine play, but even there Royal Falcon competes against commons that trade, pump, or generate card advantage, and loses. Legacy and Vintage don't need a sentence.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
Royal Falcon sits at $0.20, which is about as low as a card gets without being a bulk basic. At that price the question isn't whether it holds value — it won't — it's whether it has a home worth the slot, and the answer is no.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.