Tempest Hawk
Creature — Bird
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a card named Tempest Hawk, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
A deck can have any number of cards named Tempest Hawk.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.88
- EDHREC rank
- #12100
Tempest Hawk enters as a 3/3 flyer with flying counters to distribute, and that immediate board presence is the entire reason it sees play. The cost of three mana is fair for the stat line alone, but in Kastral, the Windcrested decks the counters are the real currency — this card does work the turn it lands.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested cares about creatures with flying counters, and Tempest Hawk arrives pre-loaded with counters to spread — it feeds Kastral's engine from the moment it resolves, often triggering payoffs the same turn without any additional setup.
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 |
Tempest Hawk is a Commander card front to back — the flying-counter distribution only matters when you have a commander or payoff that cares about that specific counter type, and that context simply doesn't exist in competitive 60-card formats. In Pauper it's a french-vanilla 3/3 flyer for three, which is passable but unremarkable in a format that asks more from common creatures. Standard and Pioneer have access to pushed threats at every point on the curve, so Tempest Hawk has no foothold there. Play it in Commander and only in Commander, specifically in a deck built around Kastral, the Windcrested or another flying-counter payoff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.88 bulk tier
At $0.88, Tempest Hawk sits at the top of bulk pricing — you're paying a modest premium over true bulk rares purely because of its narrow synergy with Kastral, the Windcrested. It won't hold that price if the Kastral archetype cools off, but it's cheap enough that there's no reason to hesitate if you're building the deck.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.