Soraya the Falconer
Legendary Creature — Human
Bird creatures get +1/+1.
: Target Bird creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Homelands
- Price
- $2.39
- EDHREC rank
- #18795
Soraya the Falconer gives all Birds +1/+1 and the ability to grant banding — a permanent anthem staple for any Bird tribal build at just two mana. The effect is always live, the cost is negligible, and there's no competing Bird lord that does more for less.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Soraya the Falconer belongs — Bird tribal has enough support in the format to make a permanent anthem meaningful, and she's a cheap, early drop that scales as the flock grows. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats for her, but Bird tribal doesn't exist as a competitive archetype in either, so she won't see play there. Oathbreaker is legal and the closest analogue to Commander in terms of casual tribal viability, though the smaller deck size limits how far Bird synergies can stretch.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.39 cheap tier
At $2.39, Soraya the Falconer sits at the cheap end of the tribal-lord spectrum — fair for a narrow card that's essentially the only dedicated Bird anthem in the game. The price is stable: low enough that it won't spike, high enough that it reflects genuine demand from Bird tribal builders who have no direct substitute.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.