Scouting Hawk
Creature — Bird
Flying
Keen Sight — When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #9037
Scouting Hawk puts a Plains directly onto the battlefield when it enters — no tapping, no waiting — and that land comes in untapped. The cost is a two-mana 1/1 flyer with no other text, which means outside of Kastral, the Windcrested and dedicated bird or Plains-matter builds, it's a worse Elvish Pioneer with wings.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested triggers off Plains entering the battlefield, so Scouting Hawk isn't just ramp — it's a repeatable trigger on a flying body that also satisfies Kastral's bird-tribal requirements.
Kangee, Sky Warden
Kangee, Sky Warden wants every flying body it can find, and Scouting Hawk delivers a cheap evasive creature that also accelerates your mana — a clean two-for-one in a deck that wants to go wide in the air.
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 |
In Commander, Scouting Hawk is a niche roleplayer — it only earns a slot in Plains-matter or bird-tribal builds, and even there it competes with stronger ramp options. Pauper is where it has the most theoretical room: the common card pool is shallow enough that a free untapped Plains on a flying body has real value in white weenie or skies shells. Legacy and Vintage are both legal but irrelevant — no competitive list wants a two-mana 1/1 that fetches a basic.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Scouting Hawk is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. It won't move unless a future Plains-matter or bird-tribal commander pushes it into mass adoption, and even then the ceiling is modest.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.