Welkin Hawk
Creature — Bird
Flying
When this creature dies, you may search your library for a card named Welkin Hawk, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Exodus
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #30860
Welkin Hawk is a 1/1 flier for two mana whose only real function is replacing itself when it dies — a floor so low it rarely clears the bar for a 99-card slot. The recursion is cute, but two mana for a 1/1 with a death trigger that just finds another copy is not a card that wins games.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Welkin Hawk has essentially no competitive home — a 1/1 for two with a slow self-replacement loop doesn't generate card advantage or board presence at a table of four. Pauper is the one format where Welkin Hawk is worth a second look, since common-only card selection is tight and recursive flying bodies have marginal defensive applications in stall strategies. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; nothing in those formats wants a two-mana 1/1 when the same slot can run Brainstorm or a one-drop threat.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
Welkin Hawk sits firmly in bulk territory at $0.10, and there's no pressure pushing that number upward. It doesn't slot into competitive lists in any format, so bulk is where it stays.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.