
Kastral, the Windcrested
Legendary Creature — Bird Scout
Flying
Whenever one or more Birds you control deal combat damage to a player, choose one —
• You may put a Bird creature card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield with a finality counter on it.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each Bird you control.
• Draw a card.
4 / 5
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Warden of Evos Isle
- Watcher of the Spheres
- Empyrean Eagle
- Murmuration
- Gwaihir the Windlord
- Kangee, Sky Warden
- Jackdaw Savior
- Shrike Force
- Dazzling Denial
- Plumecreed Escort
- Cartographer's Hawk
- Mockingbird
- Soulcatchers' Aerie
- Jubilant Skybonder
- Judge's Familiar
- Esior, Wardwing Familiar
- Thrummingbird
- Steel-Plume Marshal
- Healer's Hawk
- Airborne Aid
- Favorable Winds
- Patchwork Banner
- Winged Words
- Wingmate Roc
- Path of Ancestry
- The Lord of the Eagles
- Battlefield Raptor
- Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker
- Lofty Denial
- Bident of Thassa
- Kangee's Lieutenant
- Lilypad Village
- Migratory Route
- Aven Interrupter
- Aven Mindcensor
- Aerial Extortionist
- Herald's Horn
- Stormscape Familiar
- Restless Anchorage
- Kindred Discovery
- Lupinflower Village
- Scouting Hawk
- Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
- Ledger Shredder
- Rally of Wings
- Seaside Haven
- Reconnaissance Mission
- Harrier Strix
- Gravitational Shift
- Lifecreed Duo
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Plains
- Island
- Empyrean Eagle
- Warden of Evos Isle
- Sol Ring
- Command Tower
- Watcher of the Spheres
- Arcane Signet
- Murmuration
- Kangee, Sky Warden
- Gwaihir the Windlord
- Prairie Stream
- Jackdaw Savior
- Glacial Fortress
- Dazzling Denial
- Shrike Force
- Swords to Plowshares
- Plumecreed Escort
- Cartographer's Hawk
- Mockingbird
- Jubilant Skybonder
- Soulcatchers' Aerie
- Path of Ancestry
- Judge's Familiar
- Path to Exile
- Thrummingbird
- Azorius Signet
- Esior, Wardwing Familiar
- Steel-Plume Marshal
- Favorable Winds
- Healer's Hawk
- Airborne Aid
- Port Town
- Patchwork Banner
- Bident of Thassa
- Counterspell
- Winged Words
- Talisman of Progress
- The Lord of the Eagles
- Wingmate Roc
- Adarkar Wastes
- Reliquary Tower
- Aven Mindcensor
- Lofty Denial
- Battlefield Raptor
- Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker
- Kangee's Lieutenant
- Restless Anchorage
- Aven Interrupter
- Aerial Extortionist
Format legality
Rulings
- 2024-07-26
Finality counters aren’t keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn’t give any abilities to the permanent it’s on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.
- 2024-07-26
Finality counters don’t stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner’s hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.
- 2024-07-26
Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.
- 2024-07-26
Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.