War Falcon
Creature — Bird
Flying
This creature can't attack unless you control a Knight or a Soldier.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2013
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #28037
War Falcon is a one-mana 2/1 flier — real stats for the cost — but it only attacks and blocks if you control a Knight or Soldier, which means it's dead weight outside those tribe shells. Run it in the right deck and it's an efficient threat; run it anywhere else and it's a 1/1 that stands around looking embarrassed.
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 |
War Falcon is a Pauper-legal card, and that's where it sees the most competitive action — white weenie and skies builds in Pauper can reliably turn on the restriction with cheap Knights and Soldiers, making the 2/1 flying body genuinely threatening on turn one. In Legacy and Vintage the card is legal but functionally outclassed; those formats have better one-drops with no strings attached. Commander is where War Falcon struggles most: tribal synergy is harder to guarantee across a 99-card singleton list, and a creature this fragile rarely survives long enough to matter in a multiplayer game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, War Falcon is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Price stability is essentially guaranteed because there's no spike ceiling on a conditional one-drop, but there's also no reason it ever climbs.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.