Screaming Seahawk
Creature — Bird
Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a card named Screaming Seahawk, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #30886
Screaming Seahawk is a 2/2 flyer for four mana that tutors a copy of itself into your hand — a self-replacing body that nets incremental board presence over multiple turns. The rate is simply too slow for Commander, where four mana needs to do more than set up a future four-mana play.
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 |
Screaming Seahawk is a bulk common with no meaningful competitive home. In Commander, the chain effect is too mana-intensive — you're spending four mana per Seahawk in a format where opponents are comboing off or deploying game-ending threats at that cost. Pauper is the one format worth a second glance, where common-only card selection is tight and a self-replenishing evasive body has marginal appeal in blue skies or tempo shells, though it still competes poorly against the format's established flyers. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the card simply doesn't function at those power levels.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Screaming Seahawk is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without a second thought. There's no demand pressure to move that price in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.