Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested: Legendary Creature - Bird Scout, Bloomburrow. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{W}{U}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Bird Scout
- Colour identity
- White and blue (WU)
- Power / toughness
- 4/5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow (BLB)
- Released
- 2024-08-02
- Collector number
- 221
- Artist
- Jesper Ejsing
- Commander rank
- 4,398 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white and blue legendary creature from Bloomburrow (BLB), an expansion set released in August 2024. It is collector number 221 in that set, with art by Jesper Ejsing. It costs {3}{W}{U} (three generic, one white and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. It is a 4/5 creature. Its colour identity is white and blue. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.38 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.38 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Kastral, the Windcrested by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomburrow (BLB) #335 | Rare | 2024 |
| Bloomburrow (BLB) #350 | Rare | 2024 |
| Bloomburrow Promos (PBLB) #221p | Rare | 2024 |
| Bloomburrow Promos (PBLB) #221s | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Kastral, the Windcrested, newest first.
- Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Similar cards
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