Soaring Sandwing
Creature — Dinosaur
Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.
Plainscycling 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #14043
Soaring Sandwing puts a 3/2 flier with deathtouch on the board the moment a Dinosaur enters under your control — evasion and a combat deterrent in one body. Outside of dedicated Dinosaur shells led by something like Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists, it rarely earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists triggers Soaring Sandwing repeatedly as they excavate Dinosaurs from the top of your library, generating a stream of hasty deathtouch fliers that close games from above while the ground crew stomps through defenses.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Soaring Sandwing is a Commander card first and almost exclusively. Dinosaur tribal is where the triggered ability fires consistently, and the 99-card singleton format gives you enough redundancy to assemble that engine. In 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Standard — a three-mana 3/2 that conditionally makes a token doesn't clear the bar; aggressive Dinosaur lists there want cheaper threats that do more on their own. Pauper is the one other format worth a mention, as the common slot is available, but Dinosaur density in the format is thin and the payoff is modest.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
Soaring Sandwing sits firmly in bulk territory at $0.12, and there's no pressure moving it higher — it's a narrow tribal payoff with a small target audience. Pick it up for essentially nothing if you're building Dinosaurs; don't expect the price to matter in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.