Tempest Owl
Creature — Bird
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, tap up to three target permanents.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #27716
Tempest Owl enters with flying and as many +1/+1 counters as lands you put into play this turn — in a landfall-heavy shell that's routinely a 4/4 or 5/5 flier for three mana. The ceiling is real, but the floor is a vanilla 1/1, so it lives or dies entirely by how many lands you're moving in a single turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Tempest Owl is a Commander card first and almost exclusively. In Pauper it's legal but competes poorly against more consistent threats, and the landfall payoff is harder to engineer without dedicated fetch or bounce-land synergies. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the rate doesn't come close to what those formats demand even at its ceiling. Commander is where Tempest Owl finds a home, specifically in decks built around playing multiple lands per turn: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait, Tatyova, Benthic Druid, or any Simic commander that chains land drops routinely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Tempest Owl is pure bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not tracking it on a buylist. Demand is narrow enough that the price has nowhere meaningful to go, so grab it for the build and don't think about it again.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.